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Chinese search engines growing in popularity
Two of China’s biggest search engines, Baidu.com and Alibaba.com were ranked in the top 10 of the world’s most popular search sites, according to recent comScore stats. Leading Chinese search engine Baidu, which recently moved into the Japanese market, has moved up to third, with 5.2% of worldwide searches, a total of £3.4bn search queries. Alibaba.com, also a key player in the Chinese search market, moved into the top ten…
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Chinese search engine launches in Japan
Baidu, the leading search engine in China, has officially launched its service in Japan, and hopes to overtake Google and Yahoo Japan, the current search market leaders. China has an estimated 125 million internet users, and Baidu.com currently has a 70% share of the Chinese search engine market. Google has the second largest share with 23%, while Yahoo has 2.5%. According to Robin Li, Baidu’s chairman, his search engine’s knowledge of…
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Google powers more than half of the world’s searches
There were 61bn searches carried out worldwide in August this year, according to new statistics from comScore. Google was used for over half of the searches, with the search engine powering 31bn search queries, while YouTube, which was acquired last year by Google, was responsible for 5bn searches. The study by comScore looks at search activity worldwide, taking its stats from the world’s top 50 internet properties. More than 750m…
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