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  Why would an advertiser switch to GOOG b/c BIDU is moving to a better system? Not sure I even buy BIDUs assertion that they'll lose revenue short term. Stuff happens too fast on the internet to lose customers for months just b/c your not certain about the new platform.

  Nov 10 06:14 PM | Link | Reply
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  • Nikola: 
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  Google shuts off customers left and right in China for fake traffic. This is decided in the US, and customers are not given a reason or opportunity to contest. Even Google China sales reps are barely notified. China customers are PISSED at Google. Bidu is much more customer friendly. A certain percentage of the traffic is always going to be fake, a this percentage is much higher in China than in the US or elsewhere. Google does not take this into account. Google can't handle China culturally. Too arrogant. You can't be an arrogant foreigner in China and expect to succeed. Those days are gone.

  Nov 10 09:50 PM | Link | Reply
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  • Solange: 
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  I live in China (and have for years). Approximately 1/3 of the time, I cannot access my gmail account. Approximately 1/3 of the time, I am blocked from accessing whatever I am searching for. All the time, I can only access 2-3 pictures of any "image search" that I request. This does not happen when I use Baidu.
  
  By the way, I learned to read and write Chinese in college 40 years ago. So, what is happening to me - and Google inside China - isn't a "cultural problem".

  Nov 10 10:05 PM | Link | Reply
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  • Steve K: 
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  On Nov 10 10:05 PM Solange wrote:
  
  > I live in China (and have for years). Approximately 1/3 of the time,
  > I cannot access my gmail account. Approximately 1/3 of the time,
  > I am blocked from accessing whatever I am searching for. All the
  > time, I can only access 2-3 pictures of any "image search" that I
  > request. This does not happen when I use Baidu.
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  > By the way, I learned to read and write Chinese in college 40 years
  > ago. So, what is happening to me - and Google inside China - isn't
  > a "cultural problem".
  
  Thanks for the view from the inside of China. Enlightening..

  Nov 11 04:53 AM | Link | Reply