Baidu stretches lead over Google in Chinese search market
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(InfoWorld) - A new report shows Baidu.com increased its share of the search market in China's top cities, while rival Google lost groundÂ despite continued heavy investments in its Chinese operations. Baidu has a 69.5 percent share of the search market in Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou, up 7.6 percentage points since last year, according to a report (in Chinese) by Peter Lu, managing partner and chief analyst at China IntelliConsulting Corp. (CIC). Meanwhile, Google saw its share of the market shrink, falling 1.1 percentage points to 23 percent. Google's decline was offset somewhat by improved performance among students during the most recent six months. But the company continued to lose its older, more affluent users to Baidu, the report said. These figures are likely to step up the pressure on Google China President Kai-Fu Lee to deliver results for the company. Google China has grown quickly, hiring hundreds of staff and moving into a new building close to the campus of Beijing's prestigious Tsinghua University. But these investments have yet to deliver the hoped-for domination of China's search market and raised concerns the company expanded too fast in the country. Those concerns came to a head in April, whenÂ Google admittedÂ that a software tool released by its Chinese operations used a database developed by rival Sohu.comÂ for a competing product -- a stunning admission for a company that is widely respected for the strength of its engineering operations and the caliber of its software developers. The CIC report had some good news for Google. The company's efforts to strengthen its Chinese search capabilities are recognized by users, with 58.5 percent of respondents in a survey saying they'd noticed changes to the search engine. Of those respondents, 65.3 percent said Google's Chinese search engine had improved. Other search engines also saw their share of the search market decline. Yahoo China, which is run by Alibaba.com, saw its share drop 2.9 percentage points to 2.3 percent of the market, while Sohu.com's Sogou search engine fell 1.4 points to 1.8 percent. Â
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Google and SINA team up in a Chinese search partnership.
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The Chinese Internet company Baidu has launched a search service to help Internet surfers navigate through the millions of Chinese bloggers and their sites.  Baidu's is the first Chinese search service dedicated to blog searches, the official state news agency Xinhua said.
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InfoWorld - Internet users in Beijing and Shanghai said attempts to access GoogleÂ and other search engines were successful Friday, despite claims on a U.S. blog that traffic to theseÂ sites was redirectedÂ to Chinese search engine Baidu.com.
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Web search leader Google Inc. and its  top rival in China Baidu.com Inc. are racing to build out their  online library services as they battle for a slice of the  world's second-largest Internet market.
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Google Inc.  has won  preliminary approval from Beijing to provide Internet content  in China, the firm said on Wednesday, potentially allowing it  to offer news in the world's second-largest Internet market.
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Hewlett-Packard Co.  will load  Baidu.com Inc.'s  search service on HP's Pavilion and  Presario computers sold in China for one year starting in  October, the two companies said on Monday .
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(InfoWorld) - Google's dominance may seem unassailable in North America, but it's the search giant that is playing catch-up in Asia, according to new survey results released Sunday. Despite the popularity of Google's Web sites elsewhere in the world, it failed to attract the most visitors in any of the 10 Asian countries surveyed in May by comScore Networks. Yahoo fared far better, claiming the most popular sites in Hong Kong, India, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, and Taiwan, while Microsoft sites were the most popular in Australia,Â China, and New Zealand. The survey also showed that China has the largest online population in Asia, with 91.5 monthly Internet users, followed by Japan with 53.7 million and South Korea with 26.3 million. New Zealand had the fewest monthly users, with 1.9 million. South Korea topped the list for highest Internet penetration, with 65 percent of its population using the Internet at least once during the month. Australia followed with 62 percent, then New Zealand with 60 percent, comScore said. China and India had the lowest Internet penetration rates, at 9 percent and 3 percent, respectively. ComScore surveyed people aged 15 years or older who accessed the Internet from a home or work computer. In other findings it reported that: -- nearly 284 million people age 15 or older accessed the Internet from a home or work computer across the Asia Pacific. -- The average person used the Internet on 13.8 days in the month and spent 20.2 hours online. That compared to the global averages of 17.1 days per month and 25.2 hours online, comScore said.
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InfoWorld - Baidu.com&#160;on Friday said its not planning to expand into Europe, following&#160;reports&#160;that China&#39;s largest search engine would announce such plans later this month.
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By Liu Baijia  Top Chinese web search portal Baidu.com Inc yesterday reported 400 percent growth in net profit in the fourth quarter, which pushed the company's stock price on the NASDAQ market up by 1.5 percent to $115.
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'If the music companies had won, the whole search engine sector would have ground to a halt' A group of international record companies has lost a case against Chinese search engine Baidu over allegations about illegally downloaded music. A Chinese court has ruled in Baidu's favour.â¦
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Google Losing Market Share in China Two research reports (Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou internet users were interviewed) have been released about the Search Engines Market in China and both come to the same conclusion. The only part they differ on is the percentage of loss. The China Internet Marketing Network Information Center (CNNIC) puts Google&#8217;s overall loss [...]
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Chinese Web search leader Baidu.com  Inc. has set up a partnership with popular Chinese-language  record label Rock Music Group to provide an online music  streaming service.
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Search giant tries to make more headway in China, where it faces a local rival.
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Web search leader Google Inc is  planning to boost its presence in China by tying up with a  Chinese online music company to provide free music downloads,  The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.
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(InfoWorld) - Google will open a research and development center in Shanghai, stepping up its effort to build a bigger search business in China. Google hasÂ struggled in ChinaÂ to create the dominance it enjoys elsewhere in the world. It took 19 percent of the country's search market revenue in the first quarter, compared with 57 percent for market leader Baidu.com, according to Analysys International, a telecom research and consulting company. A spokeswoman for Google in China, Marsha Wang, confirmed the plans for an R&D lab Friday. She declined to say how many people it will employ or provide other details. Google and its U.S. rivals, Yahoo and Microsoft, haveÂ faced political difficulties in China, for agreeing to censor search results. In addition, their services are sometimes hard to access from inside the country. Yahoo's Flickr division said this week that its service was being blocked in China. Â
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Despite earlier reports to the contrary, Chinese visitors to Google and other search engines are not being re-directed to Baidu, according to users in Beijing and Shanghai.