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

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

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

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

Apple decreased their market share in the third quarter, but they still dominate more than 70% of Chinese tablet market.

According to the report by Eguan, sales volume of tablet PC in China was 2,604,000 units in the third quarter.

It increased 11.3% compared to the previous quarter, and increased 63.9% compared to the previous year.


Next is the market share of each tablet company.

#1  Apple       71.42%
#2  Lenovo    10.52%
#3  Eben          3.61%
#4  Samsung   3.53%
#5  Acer           3.03%
#6  Asus          1.74%
#7  Teclast     0.96%
#8  Ramos       0.53%
#9  Aigo           0.29%
#10 Motorola  0.26%

Other  4.11%



Its order was not changed compared to the second quarter, but Apple decreased 1.24% of their market share, on the other hand Lenovo increased 2.14% of their market share in the third quarter.

Lenovo started to sell two new tablet PC(S2107 and S2109) in the third quarter, so it became the reason that increased their market share.

Actually Apple decreased their market share in the third quarter. But they still dominate more than 70% of Chinese tablet market, and it means their tablet was sold 1,860,000 units in this quarter.


According to the rumor, Apple will announce "iPad mini" next Tuesday, but it may be next year that Apple will start to sell "iPad mini" in China. In that case, does other Android have a chance to increase the market share? The answer is Yes.

Google started to sell their "Nexus 7" in Japan this month, and Nexus 7 is also popular in China. So if Google will decide to sell "Nexus 7" in China too, Android tablet have possibility to expand their market share at a stroke.



Source => Eguan

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

The summery of internet map market in China.

According to the report by Enfodesk, PV of internet map in China was 60.31 million times per a day as of Q4,2011.

The growth rate of compared with Q3 was increasing 8.7%.



And its UV is 4.96 million times per a day.

The growth rate of compared with Q3 was increasing 12.2%.



And market share of internet maps in China is as following:

Baidu map took a top share in Chinese internet map market.
And Google map took a second position, and Mapbar is the third position.


Baidu had a decisive lead in Chinese search market, we have to keep attention whether they keep the place of market leader too : )



Original artcile => Enfodesk-1, Enfodesk-2