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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.

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After several months on the eye of the Hurricane for the struggle with China, Google will be again the center of attention for corporate reasons. The search Engine is the second technological company in the United States after Intel, that published its budget from the first quarter.

The results of the group will be carefully revised by the analysts, because the stocks of Google have been seriously affected by its problems with China, European regulations, and the pressure from competitors like Apple and Microsoft.

Google closed the first quarter of 2010 with profits of $4930 million, or $6.57 per share, according the consensus from analysts consulted by Reuterts agency. FactSet elevates the estimation to $6.59 per share.

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