[photopress:it_baidu_1.jpg,full,alignright]China’s Baidu.com continued to dominate the country’s Web search market in the third quarter. This according to research firm Analysys International
Baidu had a 61.5% share in the third quarter, compared with 58.1%in the previous quarter.
Google followed with a 22.5% share — largely unchanged from the second quarter.
Yahoo China came third with a 10.6% share.
China’s online search market was worth RMB811.7 million($108.5 million) in the third quarter, up 95.2% from a year earlier.
Yahoo coming last is no surprise. It is in fairly serious strife worldwide discussing a totally new direction and focus to try and get the figures up.
Google is a surprise. Everywhere else in the world it is the colossus. Except in China. Where it is so far back in the field it is a fair bet to say that it can never hope to come first within a period of years.
The illustration is of Robin Li, center, signing in during the close of Nasdaq trading on Aug. 5, 2005, Baidu’s first day as a listed stock on the market.