Google Share of China Search Market Inches up in 2008

From PC World: Google's share of Internet search in China moved up a hair last year, statistics from the government's number cruncher show, indicating the company continues to struggle against market leader Baidu.

Google captured 16.6 percent of Chinese search engine users last year, up from 14.3 percent the year before, China's domain registry center said in a report dated Thursday.

Google has struggled to raise its user share against Chinese search giant Baidu, which opened in 2000 and has worked hard to lead its domestic market.

Baidu's user share rose more than two percentage points to 76.9 percent last year, the Chinese Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) said.

China had 298 million Internet users at the end of 2008, the most in any country, according to CNNIC.

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