Baidu Rises On Google News
Google’s Chinese rival is reaping the benefits of its American counterpart’s threat to exit the growing market.Chinese search engine Baidu has a 63% market share of Internet searches among China’s 300 million online users, according to comScore of VGP-BPS2A. If Google shuts its local site Google.cn, as it threatened to do Tuesday, Beijing-based Baidu stands to grow its user base even larger, and add more advertisers to its roster.
Responding to Google’s warning, Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said Thursday that it welcomes law-abiding foreign Internet companies of VGP-BPS8.”China’s Internet is open,” she said. “China welcomes international Internet enterprises to conduct business in China according to law.”
On Tuesday Google stated it would end censorship of search results to China-based users and may close its Google.cn site entirely over concerns of computer security of Sony-VGP-BPS8,Sony-vgp bps8a Cyber-security concerns escalated Tuesday after Baidu was hijacked for about four hours by a hacker group called “Iranian Cyber Army” and, separately, Google accused someone in China of breaking into Gmail accounts used by human rights activists in China.
The possibility of Google’s exit from China sent American depositary receipts of Baidu jumping 5.6%, or 24.62 points, to $464.10, in afternoon trading Thursday. “It’s a huge positive for Baidu,” said Citigroup analyst Catherine”If Google.cn is shut down of Apple A1175, the only real alternative is to go to Baidu,” Leung said. “If Baidu were able to get the majority of Google’s market share that means we are looking at a player with 80% to 90% market share in China.”
Aside from general UI polish, my current Pre still has two non-trivial advantages over Android and the iPhone: Synergy and the multitasking paradigm. The former is something that could probably be ported to Android, at least on an app-by-app basis (e.g., a contacts app that combines contacts from all of your services for VGP-BPS2A battery , and an IM app that bundles SMS and IM). The latter, though, presents a deeper problem.
The webOS “card” metaphor is a really great way to do multitasking on a mobile phone, and neither Apple nor Google have anything that matches it for A1175 battery . You can definitely multitask on Android, but if you really want to manage your running apps you have to use third-party process viewers, killing off apps that you don’t want to run.
If Google.cn closes, as much as 80% of Chinese advertiser spending may also move to Baidu, the analyst said. Ad spending could move to the Chinese section of Google’s core U.S. site of VGP-BPS8; though advertisers may be troubled by the Chinese government’s filtering of its citizens’ access to some content.
Since launching it in 2005, Google willingly censored Google.cn search results relating to sex, pornography and controversial politics. In the last year Chinese authorities have generally tightened Internet controls of Sony-VGP-BPS8, both within China through the self-censorship and filtering that Google.cn submitted to, and at the country’s borders by blocking Google-owned YouTube, as well as Facebook and Twitter and numerous human rights, news and blogging sites deemed objectionable by Chinese authorities.
But Google now hopes to reach an agreement with the Chinese government on how it can “operate an unfiltered search engine within the law, if at all,” according to a statement made Tuesday by David Drummond, Google senior vice president of VGP-BPS2 battery, corporate development, and chief legal officer.If an agreement is not reached, Google’s exit of the China-based search engine market would impede its relationship with Chinese advertisers at home and abroad, said Edward Yu, president of Analysys International, a Beijing research firm.
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