Google says closing gap with China rival
Wow - really...
Did they get to that desired and envious point by getting rid of a whole lot of "dead weight" - in other words, decreasing the "near-limitless" capacities of GMail... hmm?
(After all, Yahoo seems to be catching up and even surpassed already thy Google mail service!)
Google is, on a parallel with all this, targeting Wikipedia (hmm - is it "that China rival" that owns Wikipedia too? Is Wikipedia owned by the Chinese? I never enquired about that, evidently... And just WHO IS this mysterious China rival, anyway? Fu Manchu? But never mind that now...)
Aye, Google is planning to unveil a competitor for Wikipedia, "Knol".
We can see Google execs salivate at the thought that they have come up with a genuine "buzz word" - after all, they are so right: "Knol" rolls off the tongue way better than "wikipedia" - which always sounded like something straight out of Pokémon-land! But that's not important right now...
As for that intriguing headline - maybe the old article in the comments section will shed some light on the whole intrigue there!
War is good for the economy, Dubya proved it all over again, did he not?
Even better for his inane plan for the future of America would be if Google could tame the Chinese Tiger - and Dragon too!
Who's willing to tackle Japan though...?
And the Arab countries with all the oil...?!?
:!
posted by Luminous (\ô/) Luciano™ @ 3:09 PM
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Google says closing gap with China rival
Reuters
Published on ZDNet News: Oct 4, 2007 10:02:00 AM
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Tags: Reuters, Consumer services, China, Google Inc., Partnership, Baidu.com Inc., Internet, Business Structures, Finance
Web search leader Google said on Thursday it is closing the gap with rival Baidu in China, after years of trying to increase market share in the world's second-largest Internet arena.
Google has gained more market share in China after it announced its partnership with Sina, a major Chinese Internet portal. It has also recently formed another partnership with popular Web site Tianya.cn.
"We are closing up the gap with them (Baidu)," said Rebecca Kuei, Google's head of sales and business development for Taiwan and Hong Kong, declining to give specific figures.
Baidu led China's market in the second quarter with a 58.1 percent share, but rising only about 1 percentage point from the previous quarter's 57 percent, while Google gained a 22.8 percent market share, up around 4 percentage points from the previous quarter, according to Analysys International.
With over 162 million Web users, China is the world's largest Internet market, after the United States.
Google will continue to use similar business strategies throughout Asia to partner with major local internet firms to expand in the region, Kuei said, since many users in Asia still prefer to use local search engines.
In Taiwan, Google has partnerships with PC Home Online and Yam.com, while in South Korea it works closely with Daum Communications.
Copyright © 2007 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
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Ah, yes... Big Bad Baidu it is!
And so the Good Guys, Google, is closing the gap with them...
Yay!
Hurray - for our guys!
:)
As for Reuters...
Did you see my LUMINOUS DISCLAIMER yet?
;)
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