Monday, January 24, 2011

China's Online Rise to Power


China has been a country rising in power from conducting business worldwide, practically everything sold in the U.S.A is made in China. Now China is coming into the power of the web, the population has increased to 457 million which is up 19% from 2010. Baidu, a search engine, strengthened its share of the Chinese market, while Google dropped. Baidu increased to 75.5%. Google dropped from21.6% to 19.6%.

Baidu has created a blog, which will be in English as to reach global audience that follows China and Chinese society. “China's Internet culture is fascinating," said Kaiser Kuo, Baidu's Director of International Communications. "The Web is where all the new Chinese memes are born, where celebrities-for better or for worse-are created, where new writers hone their skills, and where songs become hits. The Internet has become the crucible of contemporary Chinese culture, and is the de facto public sphere of Chinese life, where ideas are exchanged, often with remarkable candor."

In addition China has launched their own online map service. Google has yet to apply for a Web mapping license in the country.  This took four years to gather all the satellite images, which were collected from 2006 to 2010. This map service is provided free of charge. In regards to this I believe that China will be able to grow stronger in the online market, and likely to extend to other countries. 

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