One thing this article seems to miss is that Google offers a lot of tools in which Baidu were not their primary competitor. Google Translate comes to mind. Bai

One thing this article seems to miss is that Google offers a lot of tools in which Baidu were not their primary competitor. Google Translate comes to mind. Baidu don't even seem active in this space, their online translator app goes to the website of some (human) translation agency [1] who pretty clearly didn't develop the machine translation software they're featuring on their website (based on the fact that all their language pairs have English, rather than Chinese, as one of the components). My guess would be that with Google Translate out of the picture, Yahoo Babelfish probably gets most of their traffic instead -- better quality than Baidu's provider. [1] http://www.netat.net/ http://www.netat.net/