Baidu Leading China Search Market Share In 5 Verticals

According to iResearch, Baidu is the search engine market share leader in December 2006 in the following 5 major verticals (or categories):

  • Web Search
  • News Search
  • Image Search
  • Music Search
  • Map Search

Search Market Share on Web Search

  • Baidu: 66.3%
  • Google: 18.1%
  • Yahoo!: 6.0%
  • Tencent: 4.3%
  • Sogou: 1.8%
  • Other: 3.4%

Search Market Share on News Search

  • Baidu: 71.2%
  • Google: 10.9%
  • Netease: 7.3%
  • Sogou: 6.8%
  • Yahoo!: 2.3%
  • Other: 1.5%

Search Market Share on Image Search

  • Baidu: 69.3%
  • Google: 6.3%
  • Yahoo!: 12.0%
  • Tencent: 8.5%
  • Sogou: 1.7%
  • Other: 2.3%

Search Market Share on Music Search

  • Baidu: 79.6%
  • Yahoo!: 6.9%
  • Sogou: 2.4%
  • Tencent: 1.7%
  • Sina: 0.6%
  • Other: 8.8%

Search Market Share on Map Search

  • Baidu: 26.3%
  • Sogou: 14.3%
  • 51Ditu: 10.4%
  • Mapbar: 9.9%
  • eDushi: 9.6%
  • DDMap: 7.2%
  • Other: 22.3%

Also, Baidu doubled its advertising revenues in Q1 2007 comparing to that of a year ago.

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Posted on June 18, 2007
Filed Under Baidu, China Internet, Research, Search Engines |

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3 Responses to “Baidu Leading China Search Market Share In 5 Verticals”

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    [...] hand, search competitor Baidu has doubled its advertising revenue in Q1 2007 and finished off by leading China’s search market share in December 2006 in 5 verticals. Other factors contributing to Google China’s limited progress include its failure to offer [...]

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