Google Market Share in China on the Decline From Google Business Listing
Skirmishes with the Chinese government have not been good for Google's business listing search within the country. According to recent data Google has lost market share to rival Baidu for the fifth quarter in a row. Google currently has a 19% share of the market, while Baidu has 76%.
This represents a decline of 12% since the beginning of the year for Google since it first announced its partial retreat from the mainland to Hong Kong. The drop in traffic is largely due to the fact that a lack of mainland search operations has made Google.cn more unreliable and inconsistent. However, while it's search engine numbers are declining, its overall revenues from China are not. This is a result of Google's effort to boost its display ad network and aggressively pursue Chinese advertisers to place ads on its network.