comScore, Inc., an internet research firm, recently released the Worldwide Search Top 10 report. Two of China’s search properties, Baidu.com and Alibaba.com ranked third and tenth resectively in that report. It was the first time Alibaba made the list with 0.8 percent of the the 66.2 billion searches conducted worldwide in December of 2007. Alibaba.com, a B2B business unit of Alibaba Group and owner of Yahoo China, is one of country’s fastest growing Internet companies. Baidu, the leading Chinese-language search engine recently launched in Japan and came in third with 5.2 percent share of queries. South Korea’s NHN Corporation which owns the search engine Naver came in fifth with 2.4 percent.
Source: comScore
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