From
Reuters:
"Chinese Internet search leader
Baidu.com
said on Monday it would enter Japan's search market in 2007, prompting
a 2 percent rise in its shares, but analysts questioned whether the
expansion would succeed.
The company said its decision, which
followed a six-month study into Japanese-language search technology,
was based on a high level of Internet use in Japan and some
similarities between the Chinese and Japanese languages.
Baidu,
which claims 60 percent of China's Web search market, did not detail
its plans to enter the Japanese market, where competitors will include
market leader
Yahoo Japan Corp.,
Google Inc., and
Microsoft Corp.'s MSN."
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