How to get the 460GB permanent space in the 'Baidu Cloud' without any charge.

As you know, Baidu is the most popular company who is providing the search engine in China. And Baidu also provides other solutions to internet users, and this Baidu Cloud is also one of their services.

To put it simply, it's the service it is like the Google Drive.

They provide the 15GB space to users without any charge, but if the user would like to get more space, it's basically needed suitable costs.

But now, they promote a campaign that Baidu give 460GB permanent space without any charge. *Of course, it is needed some process to get it :)

Today, I would like to explain how you can get it.

At first, you have to register the account of Baidu here.
And if you don't have a cellphone in China, you have to click the tab that is marked the red frame to register it with your email address.

After inputting your email address, the password and verification code, you have to click that is marked the blue frame to finish this registration.

If you successfully finish this registration, go back to the campaign page to login to Baidu Cloud.

To login, you have to click the green frame button at the upper right corner of the above picture. After you input your registered email, password and verification code, it means that you already got the chance to join this campaign.


There are two steps to get 460GB permanent space here as follows.

1. Download its Windows or Macintosh client, and after that, access to the Baidu Cloud from its client.

At first you have to click the icon of PC to download its client.
*The icon of the left side is client for Windows, and the right side is for Macintosh.

After downloading, you have to start its client, and have to login with Baidu account on it.  After that, you can find a popup that is written the button of "领取100G", so you have to click that button. That's all. After that, you can find that you already got its 100GB space.

2. Download its smartphone client, and after that, click the blue frame button.

This step is very simple. At first, you have to click the button of each smartphone picture that you usually use to download its client. *for example, the button of Android. After that, the action you have to do is only to click the blue frame button.

That's all. And you can get 360GB additional space.


Actually, this campaign has the three steps, and this campaign is named 1T (it means 1TB) one. But to clear the last step, you have to pay 1 RMB via electric money. I know 1 RMB is not so expensive, but if you don't have the account of bank in China or any payment cards like Alipay, you can't get it.

This blog has a lot of access from outside of China, so I said "460GB", and I explained the only two steps :)

Baidu Cloud is very useful to share files with people who lives in China. If you have an interest, let's get it!


Source => The campaign page of Baidu Cloud

Baidu report said that about each 70% users use Win XP and IE in China.

According to the recent report by Baidu statistics, IE8 is the most used web browser in China as of the end of April.

IE8.0            38.05%
IE6.0            17.62%
Chrome        17.07%
IE9.0            10.41%
Sogou             6.27%
IE7.0              1.73%
Qihoo 360    1.41%
Maxthon       1.25%
Firefox          1.20%






The period covered by this report is three months that is from February 2013 to April.

As mentioned above, IE8 has 38.05% market share, and it is the most used web browser in China. But the worthy of special mentions are following two things.

- IE6 is still used by 17.62% users in China.
The data by "IE6 countdown" also said that 24.0% user still use IE6 in China. About the other country, the average utilization of IE6 is less than 2%, so it can be said that China is the special circumstances of web browser.

- Chrome is rapidly growing in this three months.
Chrome had 9.06% market share in the last three months. Hence it follows that Chrome got the almost double market share compared to the previous three months.



The next picture is the market share of the PC OS in China as of the end of April.

Windows XP        70.73%

Windows 7             25.1%

Windows Vista      0.59%

Mac OS                 0.42%

Windows 2003        0.3%

Other                     2.85%




The period covered by this report is also from February 2013 to April.

Over 70% users use Windows XP in China, and other 25% users use Windows 7. Hence it follows that they totally have over 95% market share in China.

The formal support from Microsoft of Windows XP will end in next April, but Qihoo 360 announced to continue support of Windows XP instead of MS after next April.


It is the something worth seeing whether Chinese XP users will upgrade or replace their OS to other OS or not.

Anyway at this time, I think that web service provider or app developer who wants to enter Chinese market have to consider the above results.


Source => Baidu statistics

Baidu still have the two big problem to be solved for search area.

As you know, Baidu is the biggest search solution provider in China. And actually, they have dominated the search market in China for a long time.

But recently, they are just facing the two big problems to be solved as follows.


1. Moblie Search Market

Chinese mobile search market share in the first quarter

Baidu  37.5%
SOSO   16.7%
easou   15.7%
Yicha   11.2%
Sogou    7.4%
Google China   6.3%
Youdao  2.3%
Roboo     1.8%
iask        1.3%



The above picture is the market share of the Chinese mobile search engine in the first quarter. According to this report, Baidu has 37.5% market share in Chinese mobile search engine market, and they occupy the leading position on there.
But as I explained before, they still don't have the overwhelming strength in the mobile area compared to the PC area.

Baidu has provided the special Smartphone that is adopted their own OS with partner since last year, and they established the LBS specific team in their company to accelerate their mobile solution. But compared the market share of last year, but it seems that their effort is not still rewarded.


2. Rise of the Qihoo 360
The following picture is the market share of the Chinese PC search market in the first quarter.

Baidu                68.32%
Qihoo 360       14.40%
Sogou                  8.35%
SOSO                   4.05%
Google China     3.75%
Bing China          0.64%
Yahoo China       0.32%
Youdao                0.28%
Other                   0.07%





As mentioned before, Baidu have the the overwhelming strength in the PC search market. But compared to the first quarter of 2012, their market share decreased 10.18%. The main reason is the existence of Qihoo 360.

Qihoo 360 started to provide their own search service from last August. They are gradually expanding their market share, and they got the 2nd position in this market in the first quarter.

But Qihoo 360 also have the problem to be solved for mobile search solution. They started to provide their own mobile search service from last November, but they couldn't still get the enough market share at the first quarter.


This report also said that Chinese mobile internet users already exceeded 300 million people in the first quarter.

I think that the fierce battle in the Chinese mobile search market still continues for the time being, and it seems that all of the fighters have a chance to win. We have to keep watching who will come through this fierce battle.


Source => Sootoo-1, Sootoo-2

The number of Chinese mobile map users exceeded 370 million people in the fourth quarter of 2012. Google decreased sharply their market share compared to the second quarter.

According to the recent report by Eguan, the number of Chinese mobile map users were 374.45 million people in the fourth quarter of 2012.

This number increased 177.8% compared to the previous year, and increased 22.0% compared to the previous period.

Next is the market share of mobile map as of the fourth quarter.

#1 Amap   29.6%

#2 Baidu Map   20.3%

#3 Mapbar  10.2%

#4 Sogou   9.8%

#5 Google Map  9.6%

#6 Navidoc  9.4%

#7 Nokia Map  5.7%

#8 SOSO Map   3.4%

Other   2.0%

The top market share is Amap(AutoNavi).  AutoNavi is now providing their map to the part of iOS 6 map, and it raised furthermore 5.5% of their market share. Baidu also increased their market share compared to the second quarter, their market share exceeded 20%.

And other remarkable point is the Sogou. In the second quarter, they were out of this ranking. But they had 9.8% of market share in the fourth quarter, and they positioned the fourth place. It can be said great leap forward.

But on the other hand, Google decreased sharply their market share. They had 17.5% of market share in the second quarter, but they decreased their market share to 9.6% in the fourth quarter.

Now mobile internet user in China exceeded 420 million people, and its growth is still ongoing. The mobile map user also will be increasing more and more, so I really be interested in the trend of this market in future too.

Source => Eguan-1, Eguan-2

Each Chinese internet service visit duration ranking in 2012. Sina Weibo was ranked 3rd place.

For each internet services, the number of users is naturally important, but the visit duration is also very important. Meanwhile HTWISE just published the visit duration ranking of each internet services in China.

                        all visit duration in 2012       Share               Type of Service

                            (Unit : billion hours) 

#1 Baidu                           5.61                          7.0%                 Search Engine

#2 Taobao                        4.12                          5.1%                 EC

#3 Sina Weibo                 1.81                          2.3%                 Weibo

#4 Youku                          1.59                          2.0%                 Video Sharing

#5 Baidu Tieba                1.37                          1.7%                 Community

#6 Qzone                          1.32                          1.6%                 SNS

#7 Tudou                          1.06                          1.3%                 Video Sharing

#8 QQ Mail                       0.96                          1.2%                 Mail

#9 Baidu Knows              0.85                          1.1%                 Collective intelligence

#10 Renren                      0.74                           0.9%                 SNS

In 2012, Chinese search engine giants Baidu was the 1st place of this ranking, and their 2 other services were also ranked in top 10. So it can be said that they are just the internet giants in China.  

Chinese EC giants Taobao was the 2nd place. They have the top share of BtoC EC market in China, and its market is still rapidly growing, so it may be a natural consequence.

Sina Weibo was ranked 3rd place, but there are little bit difference with top 2. Video sharing service "Youku" and "Tudou" merged last year, both were ranked in top 10.

Next is the graph of focusing to Weibo services.

The left graph is the number of visiting to each Weibo in annual of 2012.

Sina Weibo was totally visited about 1 billion times in 2012. Tencent Weibo was visited about 0.5 billion times, and Sohu Weibo was visited about 0.4 billion times, and NetEase was visited 0.1 billion times in 2012.

The right graph is the ratio of visit duration on each Weibo. Sina Weibo had 71% share in this, and it was a landslide victory.

In 2012, Sina Weibo showed the overwhelming presence in Weibo market. But as I said, there are little bit difference with top two. Furthermore Weixin also exist their backward. 2013 is still challenging year for them.

Source => Yangtse

Chinese search engine market is estimated to grow over 15 billion USD market size in 2015. Will Baidu be able to continue dominating this market?

Recently, Eguan published the report that is written about the result and forecast of Chinese search engine market from 2010 to 2015.

They estimated that its market scale will reach 15.1 billion USD(= 950.0 RMB) in 2015, its CAGR in the next 5 years will be about 50%.


Now Chinese search engine market is dominated by Baidu. 

According to the recent data of CNZZ, Baidu have 65.33% market share of it. As I reported before, they have 250,000 advertising customer, and they expected that it become more than 300,000 customer in the end of 2012. Their ads revenue was also estimated to reach 20 billion RMB(= 3.18 billion USD), it will be expected that their revenue will be also continued increasing in 2013.

As I wrote the above, Baidu have the big strength in the Chinese search engine market, but they also have some weak point and anxiety.

1. Mobile search engine market
As I reported before, Baidu have the big strength in its market. But it is the case of PC search engine, and they don't have the strength in the mobile engine market compared to it.
Of course, they already recognized this situation, and they already provided some solutions(such as mobile OS, mobile cloud, LBS division and so forth) for solving this challenge .

According to the report by CNNIC, mobile devices already became the top of all method connecting to the internet. And its trend will also continue this year,  so it can be said that the acceleration of mobile solution is the most important challenge for them in 2013.

Furthermore according to the rumor, Baidu may invest to Sina Weibo for enforcing their mobile solutions. Before, some resources said that Alibaba have a plan to invest to Sina Weibo, but it seems that it went back to square one.

2. Rivals
The biggest security company "Qihoo 360" joined the war of this market last year. They start to provide their search engine for PC "so.com" from 2012 October , and also started to provide their search engine for mobile devices "m.so.com" from 2012 November. And they are rapidly increasing their market share in only few months. According to the above report, they already got the second position in its market.

According to the news, they have a plan to cooperate with Google China in near future, so Baidu also must be watching carefully for their trend.


Source => People's Daily Online, Sootoo, Tencent Tech, CECRC

Baidu published voice assistant apps similar to Siri. Now it supports only Mandarin.

Baidu published voice assistant apps similar to Siri today.

Its utilization method is also similar to Siri. 

If you ask to it what you want to know, then it will reply the relevant answer.

Now it supports only Mandarin, but they said that they will extend the support language such as English and Chinese dialect. And it supports only Android devices, but they didn't mention to extend the support of other systems.


Recently Sogou also started to provide the voice assistant apps.

At this moment, it's not clear whether this kind of apps will become popular or not in China, so we have to keep watching trend of this in future.


Source => Techweb

The sales revenue of Chinese online ads was 20.42 billion RMB in the third quarter.

According to the report from Eguan, the sales revenue of Chinese online ads was 20.42 billion RMB(= 3.24 billion USD) in the third quarter.

It was increasing 16.0% compared with the previous period, and was increasing 46.0% compared with the previous year.

The breakdown of its revenue was as follows:

Third quarter, 2012

Keyword Ads   39.8%

Banner Ads       24.8%

Email Ads            0.9%

Video Ads          19.1%

Other                  15.4%

Next is the pie chart of market share by each Ads platform vendors.

#1  Baidu      31.3%

#2  Alibaba  14.2%

#3  Google China  6.1%

#4  Tencent   4.7%

#5  Sohu         3.9%

#6  Sina          3.7%

#7  Sofun       2.4%

#8  Youku       2.3%

#9  Qihu 360  1.8%

#10  NetEase  1.2%

#11  Tudou      1.0%

Other   27.4%

Baidu dominate almost one-third market share of this area. And big 4 portal site, such as Tencent, Sohu, Sina and NetEase also ranked high order.

What will be the next trend in this area? I think that one of them is mobile Ads, and another is Ads on Weibo. Both are rapidly growing market, so we have to keep attentions these trend.

Source => Eguan 1, Eguan 2

Taobao also started to provide their own map service.

Last week, the biggest BtoC EC site in China, Taobao started to provide their own map service.

Taobao will start to enhance each area service via this map, and would like to accelerate their O2O business, such as LBS Ads. And they now already have over 100 million mobile user, so they will surely accelerate their mobile solution relies on this map service.


Baidu also formally established LBS division and upgraded their map API few weeks ago, so it means that their fight already started in this field too. This fight is also a highlight in Chinese Internet market.



Source => Looooker

Baidu expect that their advertising revenue will exceed 20 billion RMB in this year.

According to the vice president of Baidu Zhan Wang, this company is expected that their advertising revenue will exceed 20,000,000,000 RMB(nearly 253.1 billion USD) in this year.

He also said that their advertising revenue was 4.47 billion RMB in the first quarter, and was 5.46 billion RMB in the second quarter.And their advertising revenue was 14 billion RMB last year, so its growth rate will be 42.8% compared to last year.


Now Baidu have 250,000 advertising customer, but they expect that it will be over 300,000 customer in the end of this year.


Actually, Baidu have a platform for Advertising as follows.

So customers who are willing to put the advertisement on Baidu can easily manege their advertising.


Baidu is the one of biggest internet company in China, and they will focus to mobile solution such as LBS or map business. So I think LBS Ad is a one of promising service for them.



Source => TechWeb

Baidu formally established LBS division, and they announced to accelerate their LBS business with some partners.

Baidu held a event yesterday, and they announced to establish LBS division formally and start the project that is called "Smart Life".

And they also announced to make cooperation with some partners. Baidu will make a cooperation with Xiaomi to accelerate mobile MAP and LBS solution more than now.

Baidu have 21.3% market share in Chinese mobile map market, but AutoNavi and Google also each have 19.3% and 19% market share, so it also can be said that Chinese mobile map market is in the age of rival chiefs.

And Baidu also mentioned their business model, they said that O2O(MAP + Near Location + LBS) ads is the one of profitable case.


Baidu have a big presence in Chinese PC search market, but on the other hand they don't have a big presence in mobile solution area including search market compared to PC search market.


I will keep attention to their mobile solution including this LBS business as before.



Source => People's Daily Online, Ifeng, CNR

MIIT published "2012 The Top 100 of Chinese Internet Company".

MIIT(Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People's Republic of China) published "2012 The Top 100 of Chinese Internet Company".

According to the report, this ranking is based their sales revenue in 2011, and their total revenue exceed 70 billion RMB(= 11.07 billion USD).


Well, I will introduce the companies that was ranking in the top 10 in its English name.

#1 Tencent
#2 NetEase
#3 Baidu
#4 Sohu
#5 SNDA  *Online game company
#6 Alibaba
#7 Wanmei  *Online game company
#8 GIANT  *Online game company
#9 BestTone  *China Telecom group
#10 Sina


The full version of top 100 ranking is as follows.

Source => Takung.cn

Chinese listed internet company analysis report

Recently, iResearch consulting group published "Chinese listed internet company analysis report".


First, this is a distribution map of those company headquarters location.

Beijing      : 22 companies (52.3%)
Shanghai   : 11 companies (27.3%)
Hangzhou  : 2 companies (4.5%)
Guangzhou : 2 companies (4.5%)
Shenzhen   : 2 companies (4.5%)
Hongkong  : 2 companies (4.5%)
Fuzhou     : 1 company (2.3%)





Next is the establishment year of each companies.

These are summary of it.

1988  Kingsoft(*1)

1997  NetEase

1998  Sina, Tencent, Sohu

1999  Alibaba, SNDA

2001  Baidu(*2)

2004  Giant

2005  Renren, Tudou, 360

2006  Youku





*1 According to their homepage, establishment year was 1989.
*2 According to their homepage, establishment year was 2000.


Next graph is their listed market.

Nasdaq  52.3%
NYSE     22.7%
HKEx     18.4%
SSE         2.3%
SZSE       4.5%




Next graph is the listed year of each companies.

These are summary of it.

2000  Sina, Sohu, NetEase

2004  Tencent, SNDA

2005  Baidu

2007  Giant, Kingsoft, Alibaba

2010  Youku

2011  Tudou, 360, Renren




Last is a graph of their market cap and sales growth rate.

Tencent : 51.75 billion RMB (sales growth rate 45.0%)
Baidu    : 40.07 billion RMB (sales growth rate 83.1%)
NetEase :  7.69 billion RMB (sales growth rate 131.9%)
Sina      :  3.34 billion RMB (sales growth rate  19.9%)
Youku   :  2.38 billion RMB (sales growth rate 131.9%)

* Alibaba, SNDA, TOM, CRIC and china.com were already delisting.


Source => 91.com

IE 6.0 is still top share of Chinese browser market.

According to the data of Baidu flow research institute published, IE 6.0 is still top share of Chinese browser market.

It's the data of last month(06/01/2012 - 06/30/2012), but the market share of IE series are 58.78% at the same period in total. Furthermore, Qihu 360(奇虎360) is also basically IE based browser, so it can be said IE dominate over 80% of Chinese internet browser market.

Well, how about the other internet browser? Google Chrome have 6.18% of market share, but Firefox(Chinese: 火狐) is out of this data, and they are put on the other...


The similar result can be seen also by the another company's report.

This report was published by CNZZ, but the market share of IE 6 was 21.27% at June 2012. The market share of IE series was 51.49% in total, and Qihu 360 was 26.94%, so it still can be said that IE dominate around 80% of Chinese internet browser market.

This report also said that the market share of Chrome or Firefox was very few, respectively 2.68% and 1.78%...


If you are the person who would like to enter Chinese web service market, you cannot still ignore the support of Internet Explorer...


Source : Baidu flow research institute, CNZZ

Mobile map users exceeded 220000000 people in China.

According to the report by Eguan, mobile map users were 229190000 people in China as of the second quarter.

It was the first time that the number exceed 200 million people, and it was increasing 33.0% compared to the previous period.


About the market share is as follows:

#1 Amap   25.7%
#2 Google Map  17.5%
#3 Baidu Map   17.3%
#4 Tiger Knows  9.0%
#5 Mapbar  8.5%
#6 Navidoc  8.3%
#7 Nokia Map  7.3%
#8 SOSO Map   2.5%

other  3.9%







Baidu Map increased 3.7% of their market share compared to the previous period, but on the other hand Google Map decreased 5.7% of their market share.

Google continue to lose their position in China, but they can catch-up their position again or not in the future... We have to keep watching their actions.


Original article => Eguan-1, Eguan-2

Is Baidu would like to promote "Baidu Space" as their main social media service in the future?

Baidu have a social media service that it's named "Baidu Space".

Recently, Baidu updated its UI.

Its UI looks like "light blog" such as tumblr, and it can be said middle of Weibo and blog.


By the way, Baidu started to deliver a real-named weibo service that named "Baidu Speak" from Sep. 2009, but they already stopped its service less than one year on Aug. 2010.

After that, they didn't do any action for social media field at all, but they are would like to promote this "Baidu Space" as their main service of social media field?

We have to keep attentions to their actions as ever.

Sina Weibo started internal test of like BBS site "Weiba".

Sina Weibo started internal test of like BBS site "Weiba".

But it's only internal test, so user who can use this service is limited like as follows.

According to the news, this service is similar to "Baidu Tieba". Baidu Tieba is a that is a completely user-driven portal site that user can post the text, image, video and so forth.

Sina Weibo started a membership service last Tuesday, but they have to do not only monetize but also diversification of their service to increase their active users.

Weiba will become a key factor of their activity or not, we have to keep attention to them.


Original article => PConline

Baidu Union reported they already have over 600,000 membership. [INFOGRAPHIC]

Baidu Union(*) reported the summery of their membership as follows:

The cumulative revenue sharing of Baidu Union paid to their partner will become over 5 billion RMB(= 0.79 billion USD) in the end of 2012.







Now Baidu Union have over 600,000 membership.








The PV of Baidu is over 5 billion times per a day. It means that a Chinese internet user connect to Baidu 9.8 times per a day.








Baidu Union helped 30 corporate members to go public in the past 10 years.









Now 1,280,000 websites are using tools provided by Baidu Union.







Baidu Union provide the public welfare platform, and they already donated 20 million points to the public.

And at the event held on 1 June, they donated 1.08 million RMB, and gave lunches to 360,000 children.





The history of  revenue sharing is as follows:

2011        1,100,000,000 RMB
2010          759,100,000 RMB
2009          697,670,000 RMB
2008          418,400,000 RMB
2007          204,700,000 RMB
2006           75,180,000 RMB
2005           21,210,000 RMB
2004           10,900,000 RMB
2003           10,640,000 RMB
2002             4,130,000 RMB





* Baidu Union consists of several third-party websites and software applications.[35] Union members incorporate a Baidu search box or toolbar and match its sponsored links with the content on their properties. Their users can conduct search via the Baidu search box or toolbar and can click the sponsored links located on their properties. Baidu has also launched programs through which it displays the online advertising of its customers on Baidu Union websites, and share the fees generated by these advertisements with the owners of these Baidu Union websites.
(Source = Wikipedia)



Original article => The official account on Sina Weibo 

Baidu released Android 4.0 based custom ROM "Baidu Cloud".

Today, Baidu released Android 4.0 based custom ROM "Baidu Cloud".

Few weeks ago, Baidu cooperated with Changhong and China Unicom published a smart phone that is preinstalled  "Baidu Cloud" OS, but at this time, its OS provide already existing mobile phone in the market as a ROM.

Now its ROM support only Google Nexus S, but Baidu said that they will add the target device in near future.


Recently, Tencent also released Android 4.0 based custom ROM "Tita", but why are they release their own custom OS? Its reason is very simple. They would like their presence to rise in mobile industry, and they would like to accelerate their mobile solution.


Now Chinese mobile industry is rapidly growing, so other company will release their own mobile OS or mobile device in near future too.


Original article => Baidu Cloud ROM

The current situation of Chinese Internet industry. [INFOGRAPHIC]

Following is a infographic written about "The current situation of Chinese Internet."

The number of internet users:
#1  China  513 million
#2  U.S.    245 million
#3  India   121 million
#4  Japan  101 million
#5  Brazil   79 million


The feature of internet user in China.

- Male : Female = 55% : 45%
- 10 - 40 years old user is accounting for 80% of all.
- Access internet 2.7 hours per a day.
- .com 47% , .cn 45%, other 8%




E-Commerce:

- Market scale = 6 trillion RMB(0.95 trillion USD)
- Annual growth rate = 45%
- The number of online shopping user = 190 million people
- The number of joint purchasing provider = 6000

C2C provider TOP3   B2C provider TOP3
#1 Taobao  90%           Tmall    49%
#2 PaiPai     9%           360buy 18%
#3 Eachnet   1%           Amazon  2%

B2B provider TOP3
#1  Alibaba   55%
#2  Global sources   11%
#3  HC360   6%

Alipay users = 600 million users
The number of trading = 11 million times



Search market:

-The number of search = 35 million per an hour
- Baiud and Google dominate 95% of it.





Social Media:

- The number of Instant Messenger user = 450 million people
- The number of Weibo user = over 300 million
- 50% of Chinese people have at least one social media account.
- 30% of Chinese people login the social media at least once everyday.

- Yao Chen have over 15 million followers in Sina Weibo.

- LBS provider "Jiepang" have 1.4 million users.

- The number of online video users are over 400 million people.

- Hudong is registered over 6 million items.
* Hudong is a site similar to Wikipedia.









Original article => 199it