Baidu, New challenge in search!

"We've got a lot of work to do to differentiate ourselves in search and advertising. We're number three, working to be number two, and working to be number one."

Does Steve Ballmer know that while he is dreaming for it, Microsoft placed fourth behind Google, Yahoo and Chinese Web portal Baidu in search.

Baidu, which is analogous to Google, provides an index of over 740 million web pages, 80 million images, and 10 million multimedia files. It started service from Japan. Now, Baidu provide several searches like mapping, finance, video, books, wap, blog including Image and mp3 seach.

From the current survey from web analysts comScore today Google is powering half of the world's web searches. For the month of August’07, total internet searches were 61 billion, out of that
1. Google searches: 37 billion
2. Yahoo! searches: 8.5 billion
3. Baidu searches: 3.2 billion
4. MSN searches: 2.1 billion

View this ‘the first comprehensive study of worldwide search activity’ report from comScore.