Comment 12 for bug 578281

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Venj (venj) wrote :

I am a Chinese Ubuntu user, I against use Baidu as default search engine -- you can add it anyway, but make it default is not acceptable.

Like Homer Xing said, more than 50% Chinese users dislike Baidu. (I think "Chinese users" means "Chinese Ubuntu user", 50% is not the real case, I think the number will be 95%+ or more.)

Maybe Baidu have a little higher market share in China, but anyone knows how it gains the market share?
- Through adware, spyware
- As a gift from the great f**king wall -- many new computer users can not stand frequent "Connection Reset" from Google's result, Baidu never been "reset", because it filter the search result.

In a country that Google is partially disabled(http://www.google.com/prc/report.html#hl=en), some computer user force to use baidu.

Baidu did know Chinese language in some ways -- actually I don't think it is any better than Google by my personal experience; but it doesn't know English at all. Many Ubuntu related problem are resolved only in English, Baidu don't know that.

Baidu's search results sometimes depend how much money the website pays it!!!!! Some website experienced all the web page result removed from baidu, just because they reject Baidu's "竞价排行", which means who pays more on keyword, who could be list before others in search result(YES, in SEARCH RESULT, NOT in ADs!).

If the tragedy that baidu becomes the default search Engine, I would choose to not use Chinese language as my default language.

English UI is OK for me. But, baidu as a default search engine is not acceptable.