The Chinese web user base is second only to the American market, and is growing much faster. With 1.3 billion people, China could easily grow to be the world’s largest economy. Baidu is beating Google and Yahoo in the search game there, despite heavy censorship from the government and prime placement of paid results. It’s hard to say who will win, since Google is pouring lots of effort into reaching China, but there’s little doubt that Baidu will do quite well despite its shortcomings.