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I doubt very much it'll be Baidu, and maybe what supplants Google doesn't exist yet. Maybe it doesn't happen at all. I just think that with China drawing towar
by headmelted 8y ago
I doubt very much it'll be Baidu, and maybe what supplants Google doesn't exist yet. Maybe it doesn't happen at all.
I just think that with China drawing towards being almost 20% of the population of the entire planet, the government there wields a lot more power globally than they are credited with.
A 20% smaller market is a serious disadvantage in the future, and I imagine Google have known this for some time.
I think we were all hoping their withdrawal would contribute to an eventual change of the censorship policy, but that hasn't happened, and by all accounts looks less likely now.
- zepto 8y agoA 20% smaller market is only 20% smaller if some entity from China can command more in total. There is no evidence that this Chinese tech companies can operate successfully at Google’s scale without running into their own international barriers.