China's Internet & Search Market

I ran across a Techcrunch article with some stats about China's Internet.

First off, as of October of 2007, China has 95.7 million internet users which is a little more than half that of the US.
Comscore's numbers are based on their 2 million user panels worldwide, but how large is that panel in China. Anyhow, I would not mind getting my hands on those establishment surveys that they did to get the baseline of these projections.

OK, so here are the top web properties in China:
I have not looked at this data in a couple of years but what a change!!!

1) We all knew that Baidu was taking the market by storm and flirted with Google before she decided to be an independent woman.

2) But tencent was a two-bit player 5 years ago and is now the top dog. I wonder what is their browser penetration now in this market

3) Sina is still hanging on, but where the heck is NetEase and Sohu? These three were the top of their games.

4) The foreigners like Microsoft, Google and Yahoo have made great strides, but are still not in the top 3.

OK so here are some other places in this region where the local "start ups" kick the big US companies' collective butts. ( except for Yahoo! Jap)

Interesting stuff...