... Google captured 16.6 percent of Chinese search engine users last year, up from 14.3 percent the year before, China's domain registry center said in a report dated Thursday. Google has struggled to raise its user share against Chinese search giant Baidu, which opened in 2000 and has worked hard to lead its domestic market. Baidu's user share rose more than two percentage points to 76.9 percent last year, the Chinese Internet Network Information Center said. China had 298 million Internet users at the end of 2008, the most in any country, according to CNNIC. ...
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Statistics from a police state such as the PRC are fantastically unreliable.
Nonetheless, I think it would be interesting to compare search queries by type on Baidu and Google. I imagine there are significant differences in search types on the two platforms. If there are no appreciable differences it would suggest that someone is fiddling with the statistics.