Google China Search Decline Follows Porn Crackdown

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    Date: 
    6 August 2009

    In the wake of China's campaign to limit the availability of pornographic content online, Google (NSDQ: GOOG)'s search market share in the country appears to be declining.

    In June, Baidu overtook Google as the number one search engine in China, according to NetApplications.

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    A NetApplications graph shows that Baidu began gaining search market share late last year and that Google China started slipping in March.

    Chinese authorities met with Google executives in June "to discuss problems with the Google.cn service and its serving of pornographic images and content based on foreign language searches," as a Google spokesperson described it at the time.