This week’s podcast is about Baidu and its key strategic questions:
- Can it thrive as a stand-alone search engine? Against competitors such as Tencent and ByteDance.
- What is its best growth opportunity? I think cloud.
- Did it need to go into content? How far?
- Can it compete in the attention market? Search plus feed.
You can listen to this podcast here or at iTunes, Google Podcasts and Himalaya.
Here are my mentioned slides:
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- Baidu’s Search Engine Explained in 3 Slides (pt 1 of 3) (Asia Tech Strategy – Daily Update)
- Baidu is Struggling in Content Creation, Push Feeds and the Attention Market (Pt 2 of 3) (Asia Tech Strategy – Daily Update)
From the Concept Library, concepts for this article are:
- Search Engines
- Learning Platforms
- Standardization and Interconnection Network Effects
From the Company Library, companies for this article are:
- Baidu
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