Google is losing ground in China

There are only a few countries left in the world where Google is not “search engine number one”. But almost everywhere, the situation is gradually “corrected”, that is, Google improves its position every year and reduces the backlog of homegrown leaders. But there is one country in which the share of Google does not grow at all, but decreases! This truly amazing information published consulting company China IntelliConsulting ( PDF , in Chinese).

According to the latest information, the Chinese search engine Baidu increased its share to 69.5%, that is, it added 7.6 percentage points during the year. The share of Google during this time decreased by 1.1 percentage points. up to 23%.

All other players in the search market are far behind. The share of Yahoo China (Alibaba.com site) fell by 2.9 percentage points to 2.3%, and the share of the portal Sohu.com (search engine Sogou) fell by 1.4 percentage points up to 1.8%.