Google v. Baidu: It’s Not Just about China

阿飞

Most publications, including us, noted yesterday that if Google has to lose its $600 million in revenues from China by pulling out of the country, then at the very least it’s won a lot in brand and integrity points by the public, English-language and scorched-earth way they did it.

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But there’s a third—and potentially more impactful—way this move could play into Google’s market position long term. Take a look at this December 14 eMarketer release on worldwide search numbers. It not only shows Baidu walloping Google in China with double the market share, but it shows that this battle is quickly becoming more a global one. Forget China, Baidu is now the third largest search site in the world and it’s nipping at Yahoo’s heels to become number two. Yahoo had 8.9 billion searches in July of 2009; Baidu had 8 billion. That’s more than double the number four player, Microsoft, which had just 3.3 billion searches worldwide. For the record, Google is still light-years ahead of everyone with 76.7 billion searches. But that doesn’t mean it doesn’t view Baidu as a global threat.

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But as growth in search and the Internet-at-large goes global, Google’s biggest competitors will increasingly come from China. With it’s announcement this week, it just communicated a powerful message to the world’s democracies or other anti-Chinese factions: Baidu is in the Chinese Government’s pocket; we’re not.

http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/0 ... t-just-about-china/

回锅肉

不懂英语
只会中文和德语

babyk1985

只会火星语

zamble

Baidu is in the Chinese Government’s pocket; we’re not.

hehe

zamble

怎么不贴下这段啊？
Today, as the story has unfolded, Chinese residents have openly “mourned” the loss of Google by putting flowers and candles out at the company’s Beijing headquarters. (Picture above was taken by Junyu Wang.) That’s striking for two reasons. First, it shows the Chinese government’s grasp on censorship has already measurably slipped. And second, it shows that Google’s moral-high ground stance was even effective within some parts of China.

zamble

Google’s halo is so bright that even now Valley thought leaders are aghast at the idea that a publicly-traded, for-profit company could have had more than just an ethical motive at play.
第一段也不贴完

阿飞

我用ipod转个帖容易吗我。

阿布

afei主要是不懂英语， 小胖莫怪。