Shanghai Surprise for Google
My husband is in Shanghai at the moment so he can vouch for this one. According to the Associated Press in Shanghai, search darling Google is rapidly losing market share in China to regional rival Baidu.com, following the Chinese engine's rollercoaster IPO on NASDAQ last month.
Of course it wouldn't have anything to do with the fact that great chunks of Google content (including Blogger sites and Gmail) are regularly blocked by the Chinese government would it? Nah.
Of course it wouldn't have anything to do with the fact that great chunks of Google content (including Blogger sites and Gmail) are regularly blocked by the Chinese government would it? Nah.
1 Comments:
It's actual still the question whether Google is loosing so much market share.
Numbers in China, especially collected by Chinese Research companies tend to be colored. Secondly about 30% of the Baidu traffic comes from MP3 search.
Baidu has been hyped a lot lately, like anything that is China related. They also get a lot of heat because of the lawsuits they are involved in regarding IP infringement with their MP3 research. They lost their first 2 cases here in China and others are coming which can impact pretty much that 30% of their traffic.
Just to clarify some general misunderstandings of access and non-access to websites in China. It is true that the GG blogger sites are unfortunately blocked. Gmail on the other hand is very accesible.
I use it daily and never have a problem. Whether they peak in on my messages I don't know though.
Like your blog and the QA part.
cheers,
G.
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