Google Trails Alibaba in China Market, Analysys Says
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Google Inc., which shut its search-engine service in China this year after a censorship dispute with regulators, slipped to third place behind Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. in online advertising sales in the world’s biggest Internet market by users, a research company said.
Alibaba accounted for 9.3 percent of China’s online ad sales in the third-quarter, rising from 7.8 percent three months earlier, Analysys International said in a statement today. That ranks the company behind only Baidu Inc., after Google’s market share fell to 8.9 percent from 10.8 percent, Analysys said.