Showing posts with label China Unicom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label China Unicom. Show all posts

Thursday, August 16, 2007

Google gains China Mobile as valuable partner

If you own Google, this is a pivotal time in China.

If you own Baidu, this is "Uh-oh" time.

Google announced recently that it will provide search for subscribers of China Mobile, the nation's dominant provider. This would leave China Unicom, the distant runner-up to China Mobile, as the best remaining potential partner for Baidu. Because Chinese prefer to access the internet by phone than computer, this is a enormously crucial factor in the Baidu-Google war.

I wonder what the next Baidu TV commercial will be like now. An earlier Baidu commercial left Google for dead.