Chinese search engines gather momentum. Baidu.com and Alibaba.com are ranked in the top 10 of the world’s most popular search engines.
Chinese search engine launches in Japan
Baidu launches in Japan and hopes to perform as well as it has done its native China. Google and Yahoo! are likely to feel the pinch.
Google powers more than half of the world’s searches
Google powers over 31bn search queries worldwide this year. Yahoo still struggles to make any impact. Baidu shows greatest growth potential.