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• China tops US in Internet use: Chance for Microsoft, Yahoo

  Posted Jul 25 2008, 05:56 AM by Douglas McIntyre
  Filed under: Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Baidu.com
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  China now has more people online than the U.S. -- 253 million to be exact. The China Internet Network Information Center says that the number of internet users was up 56% from June last year.

  The AP writes that "The United States had an estimated 223.1 million Internet users in June, according to Nielsen Online." Given the Chinese grow rate, the gulf is likely to get much larger over the next several years.

  Online businesses on the mainland are still small by U.S. standards, which gives companies like Yahoo and Microsoft a chance to compete with Google while the industry is still immature   Read More...

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• Why Microsoft should mull Baidu buyout

  Posted May 05 2008, 06:15 AM by Douglas McIntyre
  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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