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Didn't Baidu basically win China because they were the only search engine willing to play ball right from the beginning with regards to censorship? It seems th
by quanticle 16y ago
Didn't Baidu basically win China because they were the only search engine willing to play ball right from the beginning with regards to censorship? It seems that plus the fact that they were homegrown got the playing field tilted pretty heavily in their direction.
- nl 16y agoDid you read the article? It was more about how Baidu beat other Chinese-companies than how it beat Google. The other Chinese companies were (a) playing ball on censorship and (b) homegrown, too.
- tsotha 16y agoIf I was running China I sure as hell wouldn't let Google win that contest. This is the company, remember, that was going around lifting peoples' private data from wifi networks.