Google lost market share in China

The market share of Google in China, the country with more Internet surfers of the world, decreased from 35.6% to 30.9 in the first quarter of 2010, matching with the closing of Google.cn, highlighted the company Analysys International.

According company Analysys , the winner of the “case Google” was his main competitor in the country, the search engine Baidu, that increased its share in search engines from 58.4% to 64%.

On the 23th of March, Google closed his Chinese version, that autocensured “sensible” websites for the communist government, and since then, the URL Google.cn redirects the users to the version from Hong Kong of the search engine., also in Chinese language, but not censored.

This makes the search engine somewhat less usable for Chinese users, because now it can be blocked or even fall temporally in the computer of a user, if for example indexes a censored website in Chinese territory.

Google sued Chinese authorities in January, when denunciated that Chinese ciberpirates attacked mail accounts and servers from Google, and announced that would abandon his business in China, after years without reaching the hoped market shares.