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• Why Microsoft should mull Baidu buyout

  Posted May 05 2008, 06:15 AM by Douglas McIntyre
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  Filed under: Google, Microsoft, AOL, Baidu.com, MySpace
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  Google rules the search world in all but one important country. China not only has the largest population in the world, it has the largest number of people online totaling 221 million users. It passed the US last month for total number of internet citizens. At some point China could have 500 million people on the worldwide web, more than double the US.

  Google's share of the search market in China is only 25%. Local search engine Baidu has 60%.

  Baidu is a very small company when put along side Google. Revenue at the Chinese company many hit $200 million this year. Operating income might be $60 million. Google's revenue will be well over $20 billion this year. Operating income should be almost $10 billion. Still, Google can't make progress in China.   Read More...

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