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> My point is that Facebook and Google would've been the dominant actors on the Chinese market today, not Weibo, QQ and Baidu, if the CCP hadn't been actively w
by xiaq 12y ago
> My point is that Facebook and Google would've been the dominant actors on the Chinese market today, not Weibo, QQ and Baidu, if the CCP hadn't been actively working against the US companies.
To some degree I agree about this assertion, but you made some factual mistakes:
* The C2C (copy to China) relationship is Twitter -> Weibo, Facebook -> Renren and Google -> Baidu.
* QQ is an IM and the western equivalents MSN, Skype etc. were never banned in China. Also, QQ gained its popularity quite some before the GFW. I believe this is the most legitimate story where a Chinese product wins not due to GFW. Another such story is eBay vs. Taobao.
- turingbook 12y agoAt least we can also name Dianping and Tudou were established before or at the same time as their western counterparts (Yelp and YouTube).
- KaoruAoiShiho 12y agoBaidu is older than Google.
- xiaq 12y agoBaidu was founded in 2000. Google in 1998. However, Robin Li (founder of Baidu) seems to have begun his research on search engines earlier than Google founders. Therefore in some sense Baidu is older than Google, but that's not the most obvious sense :) This does show that Baidu is not a C2C (Copy to China) product though. I'm happy to learn that.