In fact, it already apparently has: In August, after Baidu first listed on the Nasdaq exchange, the China Internet Network Information Center said the company enjoyed 38% of the local search market, with Beijing-based portal Sohu coming in second at 19.6%--and Google having a paltry 12.6% of users.

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Before her career in journalism, she was an early employee at Beijing-based Internet site Sohu.com and worked for Reuters' new media team in China.

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The Beijing graduate returned to China from the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology to found Sohu.com in the late 1990s.

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