Baidu Expected to Launch Three New Products in 2007

Recently, Baidu has been very active. Not only has it launched blog search and collections, but it is also aggressively promoting mobile search. It is expected that in 2007, Baidu will enter new businesses such as video search, community search, mobile space, and Baidu IM.

1. Mobile Search

In order to counter the pressure from China Search, Mobile, and Google Mobile, Baidu has now launched a test version of mobile search. Mobile users can access wap.iask.com to experience it. This is just the beginning of WAP webpage search, and it is expected that later it will be upgraded to include ringtones, images, videos/games, software, novels, and other specific items. Although Baidu's mobile search is more than a year behind iAsk's mobile search, with Baidu's technical strength, it can surpass it within less than a year.

2. Video Search

Google's acquisition of YouTube has already shown the fever for video sharing, and podcasts or parodies can make someone an overnight sensation. Baidu will not stay out of this trend. Now, traditional websites like Sina have launched podcasts, and QQ has made QQVideo. It is estimated that later on, Baidu will launch video search. In fact, in Baidu's MP3 search, selecting RM or other formats mostly results in video files. Therefore, for Baidu to launch video search is not difficult; it just needs to separate it from Baidu MP3 search and further specialize the technology.

3. Community Search

Angel investor Hongwei Zhou has invested tens of millions of dollars in Qihu.com, and Dajiqi.com has also received venture capital. Communities are places where netizens discuss, and many storms and events are built on the craziness of netizens. Qihu.com is vigorously promoting the Spider Plan, actively entering forum and community search, and has established a partnership with Discuz. With the three-year anniversary of Baidu Tieba, many legends have been created. With the experience of Tieba, it will surely enter community search.

4. Mobile Space

The number of people using the Internet in China has reached 120 million, and the number of people using mobile phones to access the Internet is also increasing. At the same time, mobile portals like 3G Gateway, Moweb, and Kongzhong.com have also received construction funds. Mobile blogs will definitely become as popular as internet blogs, producing many bloggers who achieve fame through blogging. If Baidu launches mobile space, we can use our mobile phones to record every day of life anytime and anywhere. By perfectly combining Baidu Space and mobile space, it will surely achieve remarkable success.

5. Baidu IM

The system message function of Baidu Personal Center allows you to add friends freely and send messages, which already has the initial prototype of Baidu IM.