already have more than 75% of the Chinese search engine all to themselves and are beginning to eat away at
Google rather slim share, but that isn't enough for General Manager of
Baidu, as he has plans to whip Google's
Android OS from the American web giant.
Baidu today claimed that they are in talks with a number of
Android smartphones makers in
China and who sell
phones to the worlds fastest growing
cell phone market, to have the default Google search replaced on handsets with Baidu's own. The talks seem to be going well for
Baidu too as they claim 80% of all Android phones that will be sold in
China will be getting
Baidu search as default rather than Google's.
The
news is obviously going to leave a soar taste in the mouths of those at Google, but what can they do to retaliate short of withdrawing Android from
open source? Surely they wouldn't do that would they?
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