Microsoft, Baidu to Expand Web-Search Partnership in China
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Microsoft Corp. and Baidu Inc. agreed to bolster their Internet-search partnership in China as the companies seek to gain users from Google Inc. in the world’s biggest Internet market.
The agreement will let Baidu users see English search results generated by the U.S. company’s Bing technology to users in China, Viola Wang, a spokeswoman at Microsoft’s MSN venture in China, said by phone today. A service jointly offered by the companies will start this year, Baidu said in an e-mailed statement today.