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Do you even speak Mandarin, to begin with? Chinese segment was a normal part of the Internet till the second half of 2000s. Baidu in particular was a competitiv
by orbital-decay 6y ago
Do you even speak Mandarin, to begin with? Chinese segment was a normal part of the Internet till the second half of 2000s. Baidu in particular was a competitive search engine, and another dotcom crash survivor, along with Yandex, Google, Yahoo etc.
- cblconfederate 6y agoIf we re talking about the chinese-speaking internet then what's the point of talking about "splitting"? Splitting implies that international users used it, and now don't.
- m4x 6y agoIt makes more sense to use splitting to refer to access, rather than use. No group anywhere uses all of the www, but in the past all groups at least had the option of doing so. Edit: it was probably a much more significant change from the Chinese point of view than the Western one, since propertionally more Chinese speak English and browse English sites than Westerners speak Mandarin and browse Chinese sites.