Baidu to Provide Mobile Web Search to China Unicom

­Chinese internet search engine, Baidu has entered into a partnership with China Unicom to provide wireless search for the mobile network operators' 3G mobile subscribers.

Under the agreement, Baidu's wireless search service will be embedded in China Unicom's 3G mobile phone modules. China Unicom's mobile subscribers will be able to use preinstalled applications to access Baidu products including web search, Baidu Knows, Baidu Post Bar, image search, news search, MP3 search and other useful services. Baidu will also provide search functions within China Unicom's wireless Internet sites to service the carrier's users.

''We are very excited to join hands with China Unicom today following our partnership agreement with China Telecom in May,'' said Xuyang Ren, Baidu's Vice President of Marketing and Business Development. ''As the leader in Chinese language search, we hope that Baidu's cooperation with major telecom providers in China will accelerate the development of 3G services and allow us to provide the rapidly growing population of mobile search users better access to information.''

Posted to the site on 19th October 2009