Baidu Is Ready To Launch A Messaging Service

Founded in late October, 1999, the Chinese Baidu grew quickly to be the market leader in the Chinese Internet search business, but also entered the Japanese market, and probably more countries are going to follow, especially in Asia. For now, it has over 3,000 employees, and is only available for Chinese and Japanese users. Its index has over 740 million web pages, 80 million images, and 10 million multimedia files, and according to latest news, they are also going to launch an instant messaging service in the near future...


Being given the above, and looking at the other big ones in the industry, especially Google, it becomes obvious it was only a matter of time until Baidu decided to offer a messaging service. Unfortunately, all we know about it at this time is that its name is going to be "Baidu Hi", and the product design, research and testing will be assigned to an independed entity, because Baidu is currently recruiting additional people for developing this product.

Since Baidu has its strong position on the Chinese market especially because its ability to comply with Chinese regulations and censorship, I wonder if they are going to filter messages sent throught their instant messaging system or not, but this is no more than a personal thought for now, because I am sure we won't get to see the Baidu Hi network and software up in the coming months, and since they didn't give any estimation on when is this going to be available, I guess we have to wait and see...

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