C
Evidence Grade C
Graded
under review
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Dated
80%
80% -- search market share for Baidu (2012)
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Value
80%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2012
Entity
Evidence Quality
C
Moderate quality evidence
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Score breakdown
Extraction
95
Source Trust
50
Citation Chain
90
Independence
30
Methodology
35
Freshness
83
Sources (2)
Global Times
Primary
Tier A
http://thenextweb.com/asia/2012/08/06/chinese-search-giant-baidu-fires-three-employees-arrested-for-… ↗
Source Article
Baidu Fires Employees Arrested for Deleting Forum Posts for Cash
After reports of the incident leaked out over the weekend, Chinese search engine leader Baidu confirmed that local police have arrested three now former employees for allegedly accepting bribes to delete posts from its TieBa forum service.
Update: Official Baidu statement added below.
Global Times r…
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Original Research
Global Times
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Methodology
Industry estimate
Methodology documented
Trend Over Time
| Period | Value | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 64% | |
| 2012 (current) | 80% | +25.0% |
| 2024-11 | 54.36% | -32.0% |
| 2026 | 57.48% | +5.7% |
| Q2 2010 | 70.8% | +23.2% |
| Q2 2012 | 78.6% | +11.0% |
Segmentation
Channelcommon_crawl
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Baidu: 80% search market share. Source: Global Times (2012). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/baidu-market-share-china-2012
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