A new search engine yadao.com was launched yesterday by 163.com.
The company's CEO Ding Lei expected that the new website would
become the No. 1 search engine within three years.
Over 100 technicians created Youdao within a period of two and a
half years. Ding said, "Costs of users' change of search engines
are very low. If we provide better services, we will have many
customers. They never refuse better products."
Ding admitted the dominance of Baidu.com among Chinese search
engines. But he also pointed out that Baidu has not met with any
competent competitors.
China's search engine market has not fully developed. Only 10
percent of Chinese enterprises have their own websites. Wang
Zhansheng, CFO of Baidu.com commented that the future market is
able to support more new search engine companies.
For more details, please read the full story in Chinese. (
http://www.bjbusiness.com.cn/site1/bjsb/html/2007-12/12/content_15007.htm)
(China.org.cn December 12, 2007)
