Baidu Plans Online Video Site

Top search engine in China, Baidu.com plans to make a video sharing site. These services mentioned are part of the real action in rival Internet giant Google.

Style video sharing site Baidu will be supported by advertising and offering a variety of licensed video including television series, movies and sports footage with permission of the content provider.

As quoted from PC World, Thursday (7/1/2010), this step also appears that YouTube, the video sharing site owned by Google is still blocked in China. Internet analysts predict, steps will be taken Baidu confirms the dominance of the Internet is growing very rapidly in China, shifting sites of popular videos in China such as Tudou.com and Youku.com.

Baidu seems keen to see an opportunity. This decision could be a consolation China Internet users by offering online services that are not offered Google, when YouTube was still blocked. As is known, the government of China also blocked several popular sites other U.S. origin, including Facebook and Twitter, for political reasons.

Baidu said, it got a lot of requests from Internet users to provide video content. So far, Baidu’s market share dominates internet search engine in China, competing with Google.

Data from China IntelliConsulting mentioned, last year the market share of Baidu in China occupy the portion of 70 percent. While Google got a percentage of 20 percent. This makes it the nickname the Internet giant Google is not applicable in China.