China’s answer to Wikipedia
Baidu is a highly successful Chinese search engine, basically the Chinese equivalent of Google (who is also invested in it, more details here including market share). A couple of days ago they released a wiki encyclopedia called Baidu Baike (via China Web 2.0 Review). It seems to be growing fairly quickly so this will be interesting to watch. FYI China has supposedly blocked access to Wikipedia, so Baidu Baike is the only option for many people.
zibin said,
November 17, 2006 @ 6:27 am
I think its utterly unfair for the chinese government to give previledges to baidu to dominate the market. When wikipedia is blocked, baike baidu can easily dominate the chinese wiki scene. Who is there to challenge?
I also hate the fact that listings in baidu are easily manipulated with payments from the listed companies
Aren’t there any good chinese tech startups to rival these chinese giants? We know lots of promising startups all over the world, but in china’s case, one company comes up and dominate the whole scence. Where are the challenger?
I personally think that the chinese market is still in its infancy, and there are more room for new tech startup to challenge the golliath, more so than america and elsewhere.
Young and aspiring chinese, what are you waiting for? Go kill baidu