In China, our Google is their Baidu, and their QQ is our MSN chat. So what has Lee done to make Google rise above the morass of tech companies in China? He released Google.cn, Google’s Chinese-language search engine, and hired the best engineers and scientists to keep it up and running. Interestingly, after all this work, Google’s search results are often linked to Baidu’s forums.
Google ambitions in China have taken a blow with Kai Fu Lee’s leave, and the company is replacing him with two top executives. But will they be able to maneuver the company as well as Lee?