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China's Baidu to offer blog service
(Reuters)
Updated: 2006-06-29 09:22
China's Internet search leader Baidu.com Inc. plans to launch a new
service, Baidu Space, which Chinese media said would offer Web logs like
those from Microsoft and Google.
"There's a product named Baidu Space," Cynthia He, a spokeeswoman for
Baidu, said on Wednesday. "I can't describe the product or give a date
(for the launch), except that it will be very soon and we are very
excited. But we'd like to keep a little mystery for now."
Chinese media reported the service would offer Web logs, often known as
"blogs," making Baidu the latest player to jump on the domestic blogging
bandwagon.
Global giants Microsoft, Google and Yahoo Inc. already offer blogging
services in China, in a crowded sector also populated by a bevy of
homegrown players with names such as Bokee.com, Blogbus.com and
BlogCN.com.
The number of bloggers in China is expected to hit 60 million by the end
of this year and 100 million by 2007, according to a recent Xinhua
article, citing a media industry report done by prestigious Tsinghua
University.
China is the world's second biggest Internet market by users, with more
than 100 million netizens, according to the Xinhua report.
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