Apr. 3, 2006 (China Knowledge) – Baidu was China’s most popular search engine in 2005, with a market share of 56.6% while Google was second with 32.8%, according to an iResearch report.

China’s search engine market has been dominated by Baidu and Google. They account for as much as 89.4% of the market.

The report also illustrates that the number of China’s search engine users amounted to 97.06 million in 2005, which is 87.4% of the total number of Internet users. The percentage figure was 7.4 percentage points more than the previous year. iResearch forecasts that China’s search engine users will exceed 100 million in 2006, accounting for 88.1% of the total number of Internet users.

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