Bloomberg News
Posted: 07/02/2009 02:06:17 PM PDT
Updated: 07/02/2009 04:31:06 PM PDT
Google's music service in China, which lets users download Michael Jackson, U2 and Beyoncé songs for free, may have helped increase its share of the world's biggest Internet market, research company IResearch said.
The service, which Google introduced at the end of March, had 22.4 million visits in April, according to a report IResearch posted on its Web site Thursday. Baidu.com's share of the Chinese search market in the first quarter was more than triple that of Google's, the Shanghai-based researcher estimates.
Google began offering downloads of licensed music with EMI Group, Warner Music Group, Sony, Universal Music Group and other record companies to compete against Baidu, which offers a search service that helps users find music on nonaffiliated third-party Web sites.
More than 99 percent of online music in China is pirated, according to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry. China had more than 316 million Internet users at the end of March, according to the Xinhua News Agency.
Bilibala's comments:
Happy to see free & legal download on music happen in China and hope it will soon be happening in everywhere. It is the trend & the true way of doing business in today's market and consumer.
7.03.2009
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