China Mobile, Xinhua form search company; Eye Baidu, Google and 'orderly' new media | ZDNet: "Given the Google flap—the threat to leave, the clunky diplomacy, the workaround, the content licensing and detente—it was widely assumed that Baidu, the No. 1 search player in China, was the home team. Now that China Mobile and the state-run news agency have formed a search company Baidu’s status is in question.
China Mobile has 554 million subscribers and can lend some serious distribution to the new search engine player."
