Chinese search engines growing in popularity
January 30th, 2008
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 … Read full article>
Chinese search engine launches in Japan
January 24th, 2008
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 … Read full article>
Google powers more than half of the world’s searches
October 11th, 2007
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, … Read full article>
