The tie-up will direct English searches from Baidu to Microsoft’s Bing, which will deliver the results back to Baidu’s Web pages, Baidu said in an emailed statement on Monday.īaidu has about 80 percent of the search market in China - a nation with almost half a billion Internet users and still only about 30 percent penetration - after Google left mainland China in a high-profile fallout with Beijing over censorship.īing - which filters out results in China relating to controversial subjects, such as political dissidents, Taiwan or pornography, to be able to operate in the country - has a negligible share of the market, while Google has nearly 20 percent counting visits to its offshore sites.īaidu spokesman Kaiser Kuo said Bing was not submitting to any further censorship or restrictions on its English search as a result of the deal “than they already do.” Microsoft had no immediate comment beyond confirming the partnership. Baidu's website is seen on a laptop screen in this photo illustration taken in Shanghai December 15, 2010.
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