Tencent + Baidu = the public enemy of the Internet?

When I wrote down this title, the simple and clean webpage of Baidu and the radiant little penguin of QQ came into my mind. It was these two things that accompanied my online life. Without them, I really don't know what the Internet would be like.

Every time I discussed personal portals with friends, I always said that if QQ did it, it would definitely be the first, and no one else would stand a chance. Although QQ now is far from the image of a personal portal in my mind, it is indeed the online portal for most of us, because the first thing we do every day when we go online is to open QQ. Through QQ, we can contact our friends, play games, read news, listen to music, watch videos, send emails, and write diaries. QQ has almost monopolized all Internet services.

An event happened in China's Internet this year that probably few people paid special attention to: the traffic of QQ.com has quietly surpassed that of the traditional three major portals - Sina, Sohu, and NetEase. Tencent was very low-key about this and did not actively promote it. The three major portals were also very low-key and didn't make any sound. Though they didn't say it out loud, I'm sure they must feel particularly frustrated inside.