Microsoft and the Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba test a new search service. As the Associated Press tells the offer could develop into a competitor to Google and the market leader Baidu.
Vodafone sells its stake in China Mobile China Mobile and China Xinhua develop search engine: Baidu aims to integrate its search in Android devices. A beta of Etao called Web page according to the report since last weekend online. Etao connects Alibaba e-commerce search with a Chinese-language version of Microsoft Bing. According to the Wall Street Journal Alibaba offers its e-commerce site Alibaba.com Taobao.com and to have their own search engines, users are required to refer Alibaba's online store.
Taobao, according to the WSJ's largest e-commerce site in China. In the second quarter market share was 75 percent. This year the company intends to double its revenue to 400 billion yuan (42 billion euros). For comparison, Amazon has implemented in fiscal year 2009, $ 24,510,000,000 (17.4 billion euros). In addition, Alibaba is that Yahoo's Chinese Search page, runs to 40 percent Yahoo. The WSJ suggested that the collaboration with Microsoft, Yahoo's influence could weaken on Alibaba. Redmond also receive a springboard for the Chinese market.
However, Etao deal with competition in the growing Chinese search market. Baidu leads him to a share of around 70 percent. 24 percent goes to Google. The share of the U.S. supplier but decreased after the partial withdrawal of Google, which now operates out of Hong Kong. Google wanted to deal with this step, China's censorship.
A new provider is also in the wings. The state news agency Xinhua developed with China Mobile, the largest mobile phone provider in the country, a search engine. It was "part of a broader strategy of China to ensure its information security and promote the robust, healthy and orderly development of new media in China."
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