UKFast internet news - January 2010
Online revenue in China up by 30 per cent
As Yahoo, Cisco and Microsoft are all urged to join Google's moral stand against the Chinese government, our feature story looks at what Google might be leaving behind in the expanding Chinese online market.
Hot on their heels, Bing and Apple also continue to gather speed in 2010 with the much-anticipated arrival of the tablet and Bing's growing market share.
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Online revenue in China increased by more than 30 per cent in 2009
According to iResearch Consulting online revenue generated in China surged to 74.3billion yuan (£6.7billion) last year and is predicted to rise by 51 per cent to 112.3billion yuan again in 2010.
Despite the government censorship row raging on, the world's biggest online population appears to be becoming more web-savvy with social networking and online shopping and gaming at the centre of online revenue growth.
With the China Internet Networking Information Centre (CNNIC) reporting that there are 384 million internet users, just 28.9 per cent of the population, China offers an incredibly lucrative online market.
Despite these potential Chinese riches, Google has taken a stand of corporate responsibility, threatening to pull out of the country altogether if an agreement cannot be made allowing them to offer unfiltered searches.
Currently owning a one-third share of the Chinese search market, behind Chinese rival Baidu which has more than 60 per cent, Google has begun talks with the Chinese authorities about not filtering content on its search engine following hack attempts into the Gmail accounts of human rights activists.
While Google originally agreed to censor some search results, such as the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, Tibetan independence or Falun Gong, when it launched google.cn in 2006, the past 12 months has seen an intense crackdown on the country's internet with China's system of restricting foreign content raised to keep out Twitter, Facebook and YouTube among many others.
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