Baidu.com Next Year May Exceed 80% Market Share

November 30 news, "China has become the world's first month search request more than 10 billion times, the latest set of global Internet world record." Yesterday (November 29), renowned investigative bodies iResearch "2007 the third quarter of the search engine market report "shows that from September 2007, China's Internet users each month search request over 10 billion times, while the market over the same period the United States search engines search requests is 9.4 billion times. This is the first time in history, China in the indicators over the United States.

In particular it is worth noting that contains September, in the entire third quarter, the Chinese Web search request amounted to 25.88 billion times in the previous quarter growth of 5.3 billion times, of which 4.22 billion for the website Baidu.com growth in search request. In other words, the search engine incremental market 80% has been Baidu.com occupation.

IResearch research report shows that in a record 10 billion search requests, more than 90 percent of the requests came from Web search. In this area, Baidu.com market share has expanded to 73.6 percent. Experts said that in the Accelerating Access incremental market share of competitors and plunder under the influence of the two factors together, Baidu.com next year will likely occupy Chinese search engine more than 80% of the market share.

China now has 172 million Internet users, than America's current 200 million Internet users compared to the base slightly less, iResearch data reflect China's Internet users search behavior has to be more active than in the United States. Following the request of the search, is expected in the next year China will also target Internet users comprehensive few overtaking the United States as the world's highest Internet population in the country.

Source: 赛迪网 Wang Chuan Nov. 30, 2007