Baidu said it was misunderstood mode “free lunch,” continues
Use Baidu search engine to find information there will be no “free lunch”? Has recently been reported that Baidu will try to charge individual users to search, video, e-books, software, a “major value-added significance” of the search will bear the brunt. Yesterday, Baidu's PR person said that the company is currently no intention of personal search fees. And Sina, Yahoo Web search business and some business sites also said that right now does not consider the introduction of paid search business information, but does not rule out the possibility of future charges.
Internet users do not agree with charging more than
Recently been reported that Baidu will have an important value-added significance of the search, such as video and software, electronic books, etc. fees, and general Web search, news search, and so is free of charge, specifically, users must apply for credit cards, personal pay as Baidu charges the user's membership card for the purchase of “Baidu money” to pay for search costs.
Yesterday afternoon, Baidu's landing site to the site, news, and song search, find still free of charge. In the “Baidu TV” channel, press enter movie name multiple queries, query results can be found in the normal show, do not need to pay. But if you want to download video, users must first register as Baidu, then through a variety of payment channels to get permission to download movies and television, these pay channels, including SMS, online payment, Baidu currency cards, broadband accounts and voice calls.
In a Web site's forum, on charges of individual users to search the topic has aroused heated discussions users. Some Internet users believe that the charges can be understood, after all, companies must develop, but the cost must be reasonable, so that ordinary people can accept.
Users also questioned the practice. “Search for resources is not unique to a particular site, and if suddenly to charge, would surely result in the loss of large numbers of users, there is no need to use this charge.” Of course, the more users expressed dissatisfaction that if really Search for fees, will certainly turn to select other search engines.
Free for how long?
Charges for various rumors, Baidu told reporters yesterday that the company PR Yang Haijun, Baidu users online in the news, web, MP3 searches are free.
On Film and Television, he said, and ordinary video site similar to the user through the online payment method to download and watch the movies to pay for TV, but the search process was not charged. He believes that some people have misunderstood Baidu's fees structure.
Today, most Internet users have used to search the Internet for free news and music, film and television drama, and many search engine sites also use this used to be a high eye-catching. Well, this “free service” is not the long-term exist? Although Baidu will charge individual users to search argument has not been confirmed, but the reporter in the interview process, part of the site to charge more or less answer to the question of showing some clues.
This reporter noted that most of the sites in search position for “free.” Sina PR Manager Mengxiang Peng told reporters, Sina will continue to uphold the free search near the main continue to invest heavily on research and development of new search features. However, the future of Sina, “asked the search for love,” the profit model has not yet finalized, is likely to perpetuate the way, that is mainly for the majority of free users. At the same time, he also said that it does not rule out the emergence of new business models.
Yahoo (China), said public relations head of Yahoo's search engine is still not to charge the stage and in the next 3-5 years time it will not be charged to the end user. Obviously, 3-5 years whether it will charge, then still a question mark.
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