Google and China

[SHA-hi]

Re: Google and China

Google pulling out of china will cause a substantial amount of damage to china itself, since they are both a major producer, as well as a technologically dominant country, lossing 26 percent of your search engine capabilities will cause damage due to the fact that its major competitors there wont be able to handle just a massive increase in traffic right away.

I would disagree... that's like asking what happens if Bing pulled out North America. What would you do?

[xor]

Re: Google and China

According to the Statistical Survey Report of Internet Development in China 2009, from the China Internet Network Information Center, the following are the most used search engines in China:

Yahoo 82%
Google 61%
Baidu 25%
MSN 2%
sougou 2%
Others 9%

So while I mostly agree with SHA-hi's statement, Bing is not number 2 here in the United States according to SEO Consultants.

Google, Yahoo, Bing, Ask

2009 12 72.52% 14.99% 8.81% 2.52% 98.84%
2009 09 70.46% 16.73% 9.28% 2.50% 98.97%
2009 08 70.24% 16.96% 9.44% 2.37% 99.01%
2009 07 72.07% 17.00% 7.31% 2.58% 98.96%
2009 06 74.04% 16.19% 4.99% 3.15% 98.37%
2009 05 73.66% 15.55% 5.64% 3.81% 98.66%
2009 04 72.68% 16.29% 5.67% 3.96% 98.60%
2009 03 72.13% 16.56% 5.50% 4.02% 98.21%
2009 02 72.11% 17.52% 5.55% 3.47% 98.65%

Though an analysis of how these numbers were obtained is definitely in order.

xor