Tuesday, April 6, 2010

If the search engine Google - who is considered by many as the most "powerful" of the world- will one of its most important markets ... who do you think wins or loses?As it was mentioned that article. It seems that the only winners Google out of this Chinese market will be its own competitors.

Analysts agree that the main beneficiary would Baidu, First search engine in China in number of visits and already accounts for 58% of searches in the country compared with 36 percent of Google. Baidu's shares have gained 50 percent since January due to uncertainty about the future of Google's most populous country.

If you remember, Google was very criticized when he entered the Chinese market in January 2006 (Google.cn) by having to accept self-censorship as a condition imposed by the government. But in recent weeks, Google has come to denounce a series of massive attacks on their systems originated in China and now appears imminent closure of local search operations for the month of April (the 10th apparently).

What does this have to do all this with the SEO?

From my perspective, it seems that this is a clear example of Google not always get what they want ... and this brings me to confirm that theory would ever wear in classes on "alternative marketing strategies." .Well read the theory that not we must assume the rotation of our business, as this could change suddenly and without notice. Based on this:

You may have ever questioned: what if Google ceased to exist or outside censored in some other countries ... and even, do not allow more organic results?While Google is still our principal focus in terms of SEO Positioning. But perhaps we should study some browsers alternative (Besides Google) to feel them out a little more ...

(Obviously the statistics keep Google as the # 1 within its main competitors in the region).

However, in some events similar to that of China (or recently Venezuela), It is possible that millions of people had to use other forms of expression and access to information through other Internet search engines and not just Google.

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