Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Baidu top search engine for businessmen

Baidu remains China's top search engine for
businessmen, according to a ranked list launched
by www.toocle.cn, a Chinese B2B website. The list,
first of its kind to target business people, was
compiled by Toocle.cn, who claims itself as the
leading portal for businessmen. Toocle.cn boasts
a daily visitor count of tens of millions. Baidu.com
continues to stand at the top of April's ranked list,
with a market share of 59.14 percent, followed by
google.cn, the search engine by Google. Inc, and
sogou.com owned by Sohu.com, each with
14.46 percent and 7.5 percent of market share
respectively. Youdao.com, by Netease
(NTES.NASDAQ), cn.yahoo.com by Yahoo! and
soso.com by Tencent took fourth to sixth place
with respective market share of 6.65 percent,
6.53 percent and 5.67 percent.

According to the monitoring statistics of Toocle.cn,
the six search engines attracted 852,815 clicks by
business people in April, down 55,005 from
907,820 clicks in March, as a result of the financial
crisis.

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