On Jan 15, 2010, at 9:39 PM, Nick FitzGerald <n...@virus-
l.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> Larry Seltzer wrote:
>
>> What if Google actually follows through on their no-censorship
>> threat?
>> The Chinese can't let them get away with it, so I have to think
>> Google
>> will at least lose some business there. That's a consequence. But
>> plenty
>> of other companies will take their place.
>
> I saw some stats on this on CNN (or BBC ?) the other day. Google is a
> distant not-first in .cn search. IIRC, Baidu has nearly 60% of that
> market and Google has about a third of the rest (I think in third pace
> behind another .cn provider). This lowly marketshare (by Google's
> standards/expectations) means that their advertising revenue is even
> more heavily affected because revenue per impression, etc depends on
> marketshare. The commentator suggested that therefore the market loss
> for Google pulling out of .cn, as a result of the expected intolerance
> of the Chinese government to Google's non-filtering move, may be
> smaller than the up-tick in intangibles (feelgood factor, etc) in
> Google's other markets and with EU legislators, etc, with whom Google
> is starting to have some, ummm, "difficulties".
>
>
Or perhaps Google will not be kicked out, and will enjoy a competitive
advantage for not filtering.
>
> Regards,
>
> Nick FitzGerald
>
>
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