Wednesday, February 07, 2007

QQ vs. Yahoo

Yesterday I reported that Chinese internet search engine Baidu is stirring up a war with Google, today, there seems to be a real thinking of difference on the U.S. and Chinese Internet uses.

In America, 20-40 year old group are mainly Internet users, while in China, it is 14-25; in the U.S. people go online to get information, news, weather, yellow pages, however, in China, people are looking for entertainment, games or instant messages, because young Chinese cares less about news and have no credit cards or little trust on the Internet shopping.

A example is QQ, the biggest online instant messaging provider in China, which has a combination of My Space, Google and gaming sites. It has 100 million users. Take a look at the NYT article-Internet Boom in China is built on Virtual Fun to get more.

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