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Baidu relationship announced

December 7th, 2007 by Gen Kanai

For those of you who are interested, Mozilla Online, Mozilla’s official affiliate in China, has announced a partnership with Baidu around search in simplified Chinese versions of Firefox.

Baidu.com (BIDU.NASDAQ) has established cooperation with Mozilla Online Ltd., a subsidiary of Mozilla Corporation, the provider of Firefox web browser, under which Baidu search engine will be embedded into all Chinese editions of the web browser, and Mozilla Online will charge Baidu for this service, Sina.com reported.

Firefox to install Baidu search engine

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2 Responses to “Baidu relationship announced”

  1. Percy Says:
    December 7th, 2007 at 4:09 am

    Gen, I see Baidu is already bundled as a search engine in Firefox 2.0.0.11 (for Firefox zh-cn). I guess the agreement is about making it the default search engine, is that correct?

  2. Gen Kanai Says:
    December 7th, 2007 at 4:19 am

    Hi Percy. No, there are no changes to the defaults, afaik.

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