Google Is #4 In China As It Continues To Lose Market Share

You can't fight Governments unless you form some kind of alliance with at least 20 other big tech companies in that country, and then demand they stop asking you to censor stuff. A Government, especially one as big as the Chinese one, won't care about a single company.

I thought it was a failed opportunity for Google, Microsoft, Facebook, RIM, Nokia and others to form this sort of alliance in India, when the Goverment asked them for access to people's data and to censor some of it. If they would've done that instead of each of them scrambling to agree with the "order", they might've gotten somewhere.

The #3 entry has a cute Googlesque home-page game today. It's like an alternate reality for Anglophone web users: when the game ends, the share butttons aren't Twitter, Facebook and G+, but Weibo, Sohu and QQ.

http://www.sogou.com/

I was staying in Shenzhen China a couple of weeks ago, it is completely obvious why google is not popular - every other search request I made is slow or just white screen dies. I would not even think to use another search engine normally but even I used Baidu whilst there. Far far too painful to do anything else.

Competition is a good thing IMO. Nothing wrong with not being #1 everywhere.