It might be a surprising news (for many, in this part of the world) that Baidu - Web Search Engine is used by millions of people in China which gives a tough competition to Google..
Baidu Provides not only the basic search services but it also gives facilities like Map, News, Space, Encyclopedia etc..
For More info on Baidu: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baidu
One question that pops is why such a tight competition is not there in India? .. We call ourselves the IT super power.. The answer to this question is very much there in one of my previous post [Research :: Computer Science].. Our research pattern has reached a stage where most of the things happen for a count.. Not at all a good sign... Need to develop that kind of research culture where your work is converted to direct benefits to the community...
Once that happens, we would certainly have many indian counterparts similar to baidu of China... Hope that would happen in our life time....
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http://www.baidu.com/
btw the page wud be in chinese... bt we can do link surfing (looking at the link address in the status bar)...
last week hari told me that he was able to solve couple of pblms related to his Android mobile development through Baidu which he said was not available through google search...