Baidu and Bing Co-operate To Kill Google

matthew5_3

Microsoft's Bing Will Power Baidu's Chinese Search Site
Jul 5, 2011 12:10 am
By Chris Kanaracus, IDG News

Microsoft's Bing search engine will provide English-language search results for Baidu, China's largest search engine, the companies announced Monday.

Further details of the deal, including its financial terms, weren't disclosed.

The move follows Google's decision last year to pull its search engine from China's mainland, following a high-profile dust-up over censorship of search results. The Google.cn page now redirects visitors to Google's Hong Kong search site when they attempt to enter terms into the search bar.

Baidu holds roughly 80 percent of the search engine market in China. Better English-language results through Bing may boost its share even higher.

The company has made other recent moves to expand its footprint. Last month, it announced a US$306 million deal with Qunar, a Chinese travel search engine, that will see Baidu become Qunar's majority shareholder.

Meanwhile, Microsoft is no doubt eager to gain better access to China's roughly 480 million Internet users as it tries to chip away at Google's vast lead in the global search engine market.

So far this month, Google held 91.07 percent of the worldwide market compared to 3.21 percent for Bing, according to figures generated Monday by Statcounter's GlobalStats website.

matthew5_3

I hate google.  Join me to get rid of Google.

matthew5_3

saltandpepper

Originally posted by matthew5_3 at 2011-7-5 03:54
Baidu and Bing Co-operate To Kill Google

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The future of google in China has been sealed.

This tool of the dogmaster is now irrelevant, and flushed down in her history as a failed and loser incubator for deseased insects' wannabe.

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JFenix

Bing sucks!!!

Microsoft needs to stick to desktop applications and leave the internet alone.

They just can't get it right.

Go ahead and put up a new site on the net and see how long it takes Bing to include the pages in their index.

Just see how many visits you get from Bing and from Google.  No comparison!!!

You can get you site indexed in google in just a couple days.  And more of your pages will be included than with Bing.

And just try to use their ad center for paid ads - hard to manage, not enough statistics, ads turned off for no reason....its a mess!

And besides, Microsoft has no morals.

NSLFZ

I don't think they can kill google