Philipp Lenssen reports that Baidu, the popular Chinese search engine, will be the default search engine on all new HP’s shipped to China after October 2006. As Philipp notes, this is bad for Google who has been pushing hard into the Chinese market. Today the Wall Street Journal reports that Baidu’s second-quarter earnings were very high, “but didn’t meet some investors’ higher expectations.”
Baidu To Be Default Engine On All HP Computers Ship To China
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