Comments on: Baidu Strengthened Its Leadership

By: CNNIC Report Shows Baidu Strengthened Its Position : China Web2.0 Review

CNNIC Report Shows Baidu Strengthened Its Position : China Web2.0 Review — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:31:57 +0000

[...] The report showed that 74.5% users take Baidu as their primary search engine, increased from 62% from one year ago, while Google China’s market share slipped significantly from 25.3% to 14.3%. The recent report by China IntelliConsulting Corporation (CIC) also made similar conclusion that Baidu’s market share keeps increasing. But according to CIC’s result, Google’s market share in China only decreased 1.1 percentage. [...]

By: Search Engine Journal » Google Losing Market Share in China

Search Engine Journal » Google Losing Market Share in China — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 13:32:52 +0000

[...] China Web 2.0 Review points out that Google should go more local. Local in this case wouldn’t only be related to search results but also to the way Google is managed. Demo China adds: “By dictating business decisions about China from Mountain View, CA in the U.S., the [Chinese] opinions feel that Google isn’t making an effort to understand the Chinese search market.” [...]

By: Read/WriteWeb

Read/WriteWeb — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 05:50:30 +0000

Can Google China compete with Baidu?…

Interesting NY Times profile of Baidu, China’s main search engine and currently the 4th biggest website in the world. It has a market value of $3 billion, but “some analysts” question whether Baidu can keep out competition from Google and……

By: Lou Gerstner

Lou Gerstner — Sun, 17 Sep 2006 00:56:59 +0000

What would McKinsey folks know about running a company? What would Lou Gerstner know about running a technology company like IBM when he sold cookies at RJR Nabisco after his McKinsey life? What would an English teacher know about the Internet business in China? What sort of people are you looking for? If they’re making powerpoint slides to HQ is it the ex-McKinsey people’s fault or something wrong with the US HQ’s China strategy? The first question we should ask may be ‘why did they hire a highly trained technical engineer to run a consumer business?’

By: Google Losing Ground in Chinese Search ~ Jake Ludington @ DEMO China

Google Losing Ground in Chinese Search ~ Jake Ludington @ DEMO China — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 04:32:34 +0000

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By: David

David — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 23:51:42 +0000

I met a group of newly employed Google China people at a function last year. What amazed me was that so many of them seemed to be former McKinsey consultants or similar. What would those sort of people know about running a real business? Especially in an industry so fast moving like the Internet in China. I can imagine that while Baidu is getting down & dirty and doing whatever it takes to win, the former McKinsey consultants are strategizing and preparing lovely looking powerpoints to present to HQ in the U.S.

Having said that, and in Google’s defence, I think that many Chinese also search overseas sites so I bet that Google gets a lot of English-language search traffic out of China. Plus I am sure that they make a lot of revenue from Chinese companies who advertise on Google.com. I have heard that Alibaba alone spends around $US5m a year promoting its B2B site on Google and is their biggest customer in Asia.