Everyone needs enemies. It focuses you. In Business today, we don’t have enough real gloves off fighting. Everyone has a piece of everyone else.
Not so for Google and Baidu.
Forget Microsoft/Apple.
Jobs and Gates are like buddies now. It’s like watching men’s tennis today. Too much admiration. That leads to a crap product (for tennis).
But, Google and baidu…it’s going to be THE battle for the forseeable future.
Google sold it’s stake in Baidu, but they are not passing on China. Expect more announcements like this . Stakes are pretty freaking high.
Awesome. Gloves off!
Howard, I been in China last 2 years ( another traveling jew…) I must tell you No one uses google only the foreigners and ex-pats,,, locals use baidu only, offices only baidu I did not meet a chinese here last 2 years that uses google especially the young people they love baidu because it has the MP3 search feature where they can find free music
We are a Shanghai-based SEO firm, we are able to get decent results for our clients here using Google provided that they target expats or English-speaking Chinese, or if they have some services that have some international flavor, but it is true that to reach the masses you can’t really afford to overlook Baidu. It is your only alternative.
Patrick
http://www.seo4china.com