Comment 26 for bug 578281

Hi all. As a user in China, I would be happy to see Baidu in the list of search engines, but I won't make it my default. It is true Baidu specifically targets at Chinese users, and it has a greater market share. But generally "advanced" users tend to use Google much more. AFAIK, one important reason why a majority of Chinese users use Baidu rather than Google is that "Google" is difficult to pronounce and spell for users whose native language is Chinese and who don't know English well. For Ubuntu users, this obviously is not the case. The pronunciation of "Ubuntu" is even more difficult.

Michael mentioned the departure of Google from China. Actually, Google still has its subsidiary in Beijing. They merely removed all their servers from mainland China, and redirect google.cn to google.com.hk. Their service in Chinese is not discontinued. The only problem is that connection may get reset if you search for, or the result contains, something the government considers "sensitive". For this reason, I add "Baidu" to my list of search engines, but it's not the default. I only use it when the f**king firewall resets my connection with Google.