Google Aims to Crack China With Music Push
Google Vs Baidu — new race on music downloading, from the Wall Street Journal:
Two years after Google Inc. began a big push in China, Baidu.com Inc. continues to dominate the country’s Internet search market, thanks in significant part to a controversial and legally risky offering: searches for free, unlicensed music downloads.
Now, Google is preparing a counterstrike, according to people close to the situation. The U.S. search giant is in the late planning stages of a joint venture with a Chinese online music company that would permit it to provide free — licensed — music downloads in China…
Baidu has proved a brash adversary for the much larger Google, leveraging its status as hometown champion in China to beat the U.S. Internet giant at its own game. From the start, Baidu has boasted that its knowledge of China and the Chinese language would give it a natural advantage over foreign rivals.
See also: Global Music Companies in Fresh China Piracy Suit
Origin: LORETTA CHAO and ETHAN SMITH, The Wall Street Journal
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