internet - Google goes for China

internet – Google goes for China

 

 Our favorite search engine Google is setting up an operation in China, American papers write, as a part of a major expansion to cheer up potential investors ahead of their IPO. They have already invested into the Chinese search engine Baidu through an US-based investing firm. That choice is an interesting one, tell me some people who have a bit of sense for the short history of the internet in China. Two years ago, when China’s internet censors got their new filter toys installed, Google found itself suddenly blocked. People looking for Google were redirected to Baidu.

Well, Baidu got a lot of angry emails and discovered this might not be an ideal marketing tool after all. Seems that Google and Baidu are rather strange bedfellows.