Chapter 21 Be the Watcher of the Big Market on January 29

In the past 10 years, Baidu has had many so-called competitors. I think that only by doing what I should do well can I have a good development, instead of trying to find a way to strangle the competitors to death, I will be fine.We have also seen that in many fields, some companies killed other competitors, and in the end they did not have any good results.This is especially true for an emerging industry and a fast-growing market.The growth rate of this market is 10 times or 8 times. Your market share is a few percentage points more or a few percentage points less. The difference is not very big, but if the market cannot grow at a high speed, it is not a good thing for a company's long-term development.At present, Baidu and Tencent, including Ma Yun's company, do have some competing businesses, but this should not be the main contradiction in our development.

This meeting is the first meeting of the three major Internet giants in China.Host Liu Erfei asked Li Yanhong, regardless of political factors, purely from the perspective of business competition, after Google withdraws from China, who do you think will be Baidu's biggest competitor in the next few years?Is it Microsoft or Alibaba or Tencent? Faced with this problem, Robin Li expressed the above views. In fact, as far as business is concerned, Tencent, which vows to be an "online life", has been doing everything on the Internet since QQ, including games, e-commerce, virtual commodity trading, and search. In 2010, Tencent has entered the field of group buying again; and Alibaba's e-commerce, whether it is Alibaba, which focuses on foreign trade, or Taobao, which focuses on the domestic market, are also regarded as enemies by many e-commerce companies.Obviously, in terms of e-commerce, search and other businesses, Baidu is in direct competition with Tencent and Alibaba Group, and their customer groups are relatively close.However, in Li Yanhong's view, these competitive relationships are not as important as a common vision-the rapid development of China's Internet market has created a rapidly growing market demand, and everyone should work together to maintain this market and make it bigger.

It is more important to focus on the business itself than on the opponent.