Baidu's "community-based" strategy has achieved great success, and Google's "localization" efforts in search have made significant progress. Will the Chinese search engine market face a reshuffle? In this week's discussion, let us observe the competition among Chinese search engines together.
The current development status of Google in China is worrying:
A report titled "2006 China Search Engine Market Research Report" released by China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) on September 13 last year showed that 62.1% of Chinese users preferred Baidu as their search service provider; meanwhile, Google's preference rate was only 25.3%.