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From David Barboza of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/03\/31\/technology\/companies\/31music.html?ref=technology\">New York Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Google executives said they were responding to the phenomenal popularity of free music downloads in China, one of the few markets where the company lags, by forming an alliance with the music industry, including Sony, Universal Music and Warner Music.<\/p>\n<p>The search engine company hopes the demand for music downloads will raise Google\u2019s profile in China, which has already overtaken the United States as the world\u2019s biggest Internet market with nearly 300 million users, and also help the company gain market share against its chief rival here, Baidu, the nation\u2019s dominant search engine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a huge leap of faith for us,\u201d Kai-fu Lee, the president of Google Greater China, said in a telephone interview Monday. \u201cWe hope this will move the landscape to a legal model.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To compete with dominant search engine Baidu, Google will begin offering a downloads search in China. 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