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April 23 am, DCCI Internet Data Center today released the first quarter of 2008 China Internet Data, data shows that Google in the first quarter of 2008 continued an upward trend in the audience, with the gap between Baidu's market share is gradually shrinking.

Data show that the first quarter of 2008, Baidu reach audiences in more than 85% in March to reach a monthly audience rate of 88.7 percent. Google in the first quarter of 2008 to reach a monthly audience rate continued rising in January 2008 from 49.3% to 54.4% in March; found found in the first quarter of 2008 to reach a monthly audience rate of more than 40% , in March 2008 to reach a monthly audience rate of 42.3 percent.

In the first quarter of 2008 market share statistics, Baidu in market share of more than 6 into a market, is the second indicator of the integrated search engine site nearly 6-fold, Baidu in the search in March 2008 the number reached 62.7 percent market share.

However, monitoring data show that the number of market share at the second search of Google have maintained good momentum of rise, and gradually narrow the gap between Baidu, Google in March 2008 the number of search market share increased to 11%. The report pointed out that although the number of Baidu search market share, although as more than 6, but the challenges of the future can not be ignored.

Not long ago, Google's global vice president and Greater China president Kai-fu Lee in the Boao Forum for Asia, "the future of the Internet" sub-forum, said China hopes to use Google for about five years to become China's Internet search market leader.

Although the industry have different views on this statement, but DCCI Director of the Center for Internet Datasaid, according to the current growth in Google's data, Google 5 years to become China's leading Internet search market is entirely possible.