Google Chases Baidu.com in China

If Google is afraid of China’s search engine Baidu.com, they’re certainly not showing it. The other day, Baidu.com launched a mobile search WAP site to bring their engine to over half a billion subscribers in China.

Now Google is following up with its own announcement; MocoNews reports that Google has launched an SMS-based mobile phone search service there. “Users send keywords vis SMS to receive information on stocks, weather, train times, foreign currency rates and language translation,” according to the report.

Google Launches SMS-based Mobile Search in China [MocoNews]

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