Google China's revenue increased more than doubled in 2008

Kai-Fu LeeToday's acceptance includesNetEaseIn an interview with a few media outlets including tech, Google's search technology will undergo major changes in 2009. This was the first time that Kai-Fu Lee made an appearance in front of the media in 2009 and made comments on Google's strategic layout in 2009.

Kai-Fu Lee revealed that Google held a staff meeting in Beijing, Hong Kong, and Taiwan on both sides of the Taiwan Strait today. Such a meeting will be held every year, but this year he was most touched, all Google employees are optimistic about the future. He reviewed Google in and told the media about its outlook in.

Kai-Fu Lee said that Google had a very rapid growth in the third to fourth quarter of 2008. For data in fourth quarter of 2007, the growth rate in 2008 was over 100%. According to Yiguan international data, Google's revenue in the four quarters of 0.246 billion was 0.32 billion yuan, 0.407 billion yuan, 0.459 billion yuan, and 1.432 billion yuan, respectively.

Internet applications will surge in 2009

When talking about search, Kai-Fu Lee said that Google made a lot of efforts in 2008 from the best Chinese search to the best Chinese search recognized by everyone, however, more importantly, in 2009, Google search will integrate more information resources in addition to the search function, and make more progress in intelligence.

It is worth noting that Mr. Lee was extremely cautious when talking about Google's changes in smart search in 2009. "No, I believe that users will see these changes in 2009, which can be said to be a new generation of integrated search products ." Kai-Fu Lee believes that Google will undergo dramatic changes in smart search in 2009.

In addition, Kai-Fu Lee is optimistic about 3G network applications. He said that the launch of 3G is a very good phenomenon, which will make the network cheaper and cheaper. Mobile search and map are both very promising directions.

China's internet Google grew fastest in 2008

"I am very proud of the development in 2008. Google is the fastest growing internet company in China. Of course, internal data will not be disclosed in detail, but third parties such as iResearch will also have such data ." Kai-Fu Lee said that Google had a very rapid growth in the third to fourth quarter of 2008. For data in fourth quarter of 2007, the growth rate in 2008 was over 100%.

Kai-Fu Lee believes that Google insisted on focusing on the search and advertising businesses in 2008.

"Ad platforms are not the content we often talk about. There is a misunderstanding in the outside world that it is difficult to search and advertising is very simple. In fact, advertisements are not simple. To make them highly relevant, we must consider launching the content of the advertisements that users are interested in and not releasing the content that they are not interested in, put ads in front of users who want to buy them. This is a very complex thing that allows advertisers to get a higher reward. This is Google's magic. We have a very good advertising team in Shanghai. We are also better at the localization and word segmentation of advertising technologies ."

Kai-Fu Lee also revealed that Google's growth in mobile and map reached four times in 2008, and its growth in the mobile map field reached eight times. He believes that when a product is well enough, the growth speed will be huge. The upgrade will be faster when products are not available to others.

Google China has not cut employee dividends

Kai-Fu Li told NetEase technology that Google's morale is soaring in China, according to the staff conference. He revealed that although the financial tsunami affected a large number of companies around the world, from the data point of view, Google China saw a fourth quarter of 2008 growth in 109%, which at least indicates that Google China has not yet been affected.

He revealed that, when communicating with employees, he told them that they must pay attention to the company's expenses, costs, and revenue, and did not cut employees' dividends. Kai-Fu Lee said that while global welfare has been reduced, Google's employees in China have not received any more dividends this year than in previous years.

"Our dividend distribution is an astonishing amount, which is no big difference from the past. Of course, I cannot disclose the detailed data ." Said Lee Kai-Fu