Baidu is still the emperor of China
By Charles-Henry Ruyant
Baidu has had a very good first half of the year. This quarter Baidu has increased its revenue return by 37% when Google had a bad second quarter.
It was not easy for Baidu to increase its numbers because last year Baidu wiped out all the illegal pharmacists who were using its services. Last year revenue was down, integrity has a price…
Anyway, Baidu is doing very well in China with 74% of the market share when Google has only 20%. Google (followingits bad result from the first quarter) is not going to do better any time soon. Baidu plan to hire new staff membera in order to deal with the new clients, which shoud also improve the search engine.
Baidu will maintain its position for a long time number in China. Unlike Yandex in Russia, Baidu tries to understand its market and to improve its technologies at the same time . Even if in China it is trendier (for the moment) to use the occidental search engine Google (which is why Google is doing better in urban zones).



July 27th, 2009
