据知情人透露，百度公司高管日前飞赴美国访问Facebook公司，进行有关合作洽谈。但据新浪科技报道，百度公关部并未透露具体哪些高管在此行之列。

游戏邦获悉，百度CEO李彦宏曾经表示：“我认为像 Facebook 这样的企业应该考虑中国市场，如果他们的方法得当，而且有足够的耐心，就会有机会。但是时间飞逝，互联网市场增长很快，而且存在许多挑战。如果你们不快点行动，就会失去机会……我们目前已经涉足了中国和日本市场，今后5至10年，我们有可能会进军数十个市场。中国市场已经足够大了，我们可以借助这一市场获得的资金来进行扩张。”（依新浪科技原话）

中国目前已经有4亿多的网民，如果再加上Facebook现有的用户基础，那么Facebook这个全球社交网站的用户人数就有可能突破10亿大关。

china market shares

据Meihua Info数据显示，百度目前用户是1.2亿人，在2010年占中国30%的广告营销市场份额；谷歌同一时期的中国市场份额是10%，用户总数约4000万；新浪占8.5%，用户总数为3400万。

因为谷歌、微软的搜索引擎和工具栏都已经采用了Facebook的相关功能，所以不难预见，百度高管的Facebook之行，也有可能被新浪、阿里巴巴、搜狐、腾讯、网易和优酷等其他国内竞争者效仿。（本文为游戏邦/gamerboom.com编译，转载请注明来源：游戏邦）

Is Baidu About To Get Social With Facebook?

Executives from China’s largest search engine Baidu are visiting Facebook today, suggesting that the two companies plan to discuss a partnership.

Sina News first reported the Baidu visit, without specifying which executives of the company are traveling to Facebook. Apparently the Chinese search engine’s Chief Executive Officer Robin Li has publicly expressed interest in partnering with the U.S. social network.

The Chinese news outlet quoted Li telling U.S. conference goers last year:

I think that companies such as Facebook should consider the Chinese market, if they are in the proper way and have enough patience, you will have the opportunity. But time flies fast growing Internet market, and there are many challenges. If you do not wait and will lose the opportunity… We are already involved in China and Japan.  Yhe next 5 to 10 years, we may enter dozens of markets. The Chinese market has been large enough, we can make use of the funds available to carry out market expansion.

China has 400 million Internet users — add that number to Facebook’s current user base, and the U.S. social network could cross the one billion member mark. But that would require partnering with more than just Baidu, which has roughly 120 million users.

Baidu had roughly 30 percent of the market for search in the country during the first three quarters of 2010, according to Resonance China’s translation of data from Meihua Info. Google has about 10 percent of the market, or 40 million users, while Sina has 8.5 percent, or 34 million users there.

The timing for these partnerships makes a lot of sense for Baidu, given that Google and Microsoft both embedded Facebook functionality in their respective search engines and toolbars. We wouldn’t be surprised if the Baidu executives’ visit were copied by every competitor in the region, including Sina, Alibaba, Sohu, Tencent, NetEase and Yoku.（source:allfacebook）