Who are Google' s competitors (Core Business and General)?
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Minor Competitors
American Online
Introduction to American Online
(from Wikipedia)
America Online, or AOL for short, is a U.S.-based online service provider, Internet service provider, and media company operated by Time Warner. Based in Dulles, Virginia, a community in Loudoun County, Virginia, with regional branches around the world, it is by far the most successful proprietary online service, with more than 32 million subscribers at one point in the US, Canada, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Latin America (declared bankrupt in 2004), Japan and formerly Russia.
Due to the new development of braod band network technology, AOL's number of subscribers is shrinking. Therefore, AOL successfully launched a Broadban program to maintain its members.According to Searchenginewatch.com, AOL Search still occupies about 6.9% of search engine market share. Furthermore, Google has purchased 5% of AOL's stock and built a partnership with AOL.
Due to Google's stock purchase and partnership with AOL, AOL is no longer considered as a major competitor for Google.
AOL's core business
Generally speaking AOL is an internet service provider which used to be specialized in dial-up internect access service. And AOL Search is also considered as one of its core businesses.
Baidu
Introduction to Baidu
Baidu (百度) NASDAQ: BIDU is a popular Chinese search engine. Its design resembles that of Google and features the capability to search news and images, among other functionalities. Baidu claims itself the biggest search engine in Chinese language. As of December 2005, it is the fourth most visited site on the Internet. Baidu translates to "hundreds of times" in English. There have been reports lately that Baidu's leadership in the Chinese language search engine industry is losing its share to Google.
The most popular feature about Baidu that it supports MP3 search. This is very similar with the image search of Google, however, it searches for MP3/WMA/SWF files instead of image files. The MP3 search are mainly used for Chinese Pop Music, and the search results are surprisingly accurate. Though it's illegal in most of the world, Baidu can do this as the Chinese law doesn't prohibit putting music on the internet, and Baidu is under Chinese law.
As Google launched its Google.cn Chinese search engine, the competition between the current No.1 Chinese search engine and the World No.1 search engine is just getting started.
Baidu's core business
Online search and MP3 search are the two core businesses for Baidu.