Baidu Looks to Get on Chinese Android Phones
Baidu Looks to Get on Chinese Android Phones
Posted 07/23/2010 at 2:12pm
| by Ryan Whitwam
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Traditionally, phones running Google's Android operating system have relied on Google's search engine out of the box. But China's homegrown search engine, Baidu, is trying to get several Chinese manufacturers to build their service into the phones. Baidu wants a Baidu search widget prominently displayed on Android phones. These models would only be sold in China.
Android is still a small part of the Chinese smartphone market. Last year, only 0.4% of phones sold in the country ran Android. Baidu wants to get a part of the market before Android starts taking off. They want people to associate Android phones with their search engine, which holds the vast majority of the search market in China.
Baidu would not disclose which manufacturers they were in discussions with, but we imagine big names like Lenovo and Huawei are on the list. We saw the Moto Backflip stateside with Yahoo search instead of Google, so apparently anything is possible.
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