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This has already happened in China, where Baidu (The Chinese equivalent of Google) can’t crawl any articles from WeChat (The Chinese equivalent of Medium), as
by Kevin605 6y ago
This has already happened in China, where Baidu (The Chinese equivalent of Google) can’t crawl any articles from WeChat (The Chinese equivalent of Medium), as a result, the usefulness of its search result has deteriorated significantly. Recently, Baidu has been trying to start its own publishing platform with little success.
- saagarjha 6y ago> WeChat (The Chinese equivalent of Medium) TIL
- Kevin605 6y agoWell, it’s more like WhatsApp, Medium, Venmo, and Facebook all combined into one giant app.
- Kliment 6y agoAlso food ordering, travel reservations, health care appointments, banking, government services, and a whole lot of other things that would take too long to list. It's not an exaggeration to say the entire Chinese consumer experience runs through WeChat.