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We do have access to records from the before times when the internet was wide open and Facebook, Google and Microsoft were big in China. Well, Microsoft is stil
by yorwba 1y ago
We do have access to records from the before times when the internet was wide open and Facebook, Google and Microsoft were big in China. Well, Microsoft is still big because they're not an internet company and unfazed by censorship, but the exit of Google and Facebook took a lot of pressure off Baidu and the entire Chinese social media ecosystem.
- olalonde 1y agoFacebook and Google were never big in China, not even close.
- yorwba 1y agoGoogle had 31% market share in 2010 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8455712.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8455712.stm I haven't been able to find numbers for Facebook.
- olalonde 1y agoDon't have a source either but I was living in China back then and basically no one was using it. It was QQ and Renren.