New State-backed search engine launches (2)

"We would like to fully exploit the advantages of Xinhua as an official agency with a large amount of news and information, and that of China Mobile in terms of technology, advanced operation principles and a strong infrastructure," he said.
Wang Jianzhou, chairman of China Mobile, said there's room for growth in the online search market despite the competitive atmosphere.
Wang Youhua, an IT expert at Netease, told the Global Times that he believes the newly launched search engines, such as goso.cn and Panguso, are intended to challenge Baidu's monopoly, which controlled 75.5 percent of the domestic search engine market in the fourth quarter of 2010.
"However, that is not likely to happen in a short term," Wang said.
The number of Internet users reached 475 million at the end of last year, or 34.3 percent of China's population.
Last year, 81.9 percent of Internet users used a search engine in China last year, making it the most used feature on the Internet.
"Baidu may be the one to dominate the search engine market in China, but it is a private company after all, so the government is more inclined to build it's own search engines where selected information is displayed," Li Yonggang, assistant director of the China Studies Service Center at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, told the Global Times Tuesday.