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CNET Science and Technology Information Network September 4 Beijing News (Wen/dan): Google China President Lee Kai-Fu Kaifu contract expires, and according to CNET from a close to Kai-Fu Lee, said Lee will embark on the road to entrepreneurship.

Entrepreneurship is still the IT and the Internet, according to CNET from Lee Kai-fu, said the relevant people, "the past few months, has indeed experienced a period of inner struggle."

This year, he and the company's four-year contract expires. On the one hand is the headquarters and Eric (Google CEO) out of the olive branch, including to the Asia-Pacific to do in charge, there are sky-high stakes, on the other hand he has been nearly 50 years, no entrepreneurial life is always a disappointment, afraid to drag a few years will be too late. "Kai-Fu Lee will choose to start a business after leaving, and has a clear direction." For this reason, Lee has even rejected Google's offer of up to 100 million yuan worth of "sky-high stakes."

It is unclear what kind of entrepreneurial direction Lee will choose. From his career record, Kai-Fu Lee once worked in Apple, SGI, Microsoft, Google. According to CNET, Kai-Fu Lee's own entrepreneurial direction seems to still be in the field of it and the Internet. Another insider said that Kai-Fu Lee in the past one months has visited Lenovo Mansion several times, I do not know whether it is related to the direction of entrepreneurship.

July 2005, Google announced the former Microsoft Global vice President Kai-Fu Lee officially joined Google, as the global vice president, China's regional president, in charge of business in China. But because of Microsoft's lawsuit against the non-competitive contract and confidentiality Treaty that it signed when joining Microsoft, Lee did not fly to Beijing as president of Google China until the end of September, 4 years ago.

Kai-Fu Lee in the recent media to the four years of work to make a summary, "Google has done three basic jobs in China in four years: the first is to set up a team of engineers in line with company values, and the second is to do a good job of Chinese search and get more Chinese users," he said. The third thing is to do something unique, Only technology that China can do. ”

At the same time, he also mentioned that Google's Chinese search is in fact the best, but lack of brand promotion and awareness. "We had hoped to be successful by word of mouth, as in the United States, but this plan is not progressing as fast as the United States, and we recognise that there is a lot of market awareness in China." Although our Chinese search is the best, but not every Internet user knows, I hope to be able to promote the brand and cognition to do better. ”

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"Although Google still faces some challenges, the data from third party research companies show that Google's market share in China has increased from 16.1% in 2006 to 31% today," according to CNET, a person close to Lee. ”

Kai-Fu Lee in the Google into China's four-year size action has not broken. At the end of September 2005, Kai-Fu Lee just flew to Beijing as the president of Google China, the launch of the National University Tour, for Google in China large-scale recruitment activities if; January 23, 2006, Google issued a Chinese domain name google.cn, but this year is Google has been questioned a year , February 9, 2007, Google Map online, the same year in April, Google China launched Google Input method, then in June, Google shouted the localization of accelerated running, launched the "Integrated search" strategy; 2008, Google on the mobile phone to achieve integrated search, May launched Google PowerWord, And in the month to admit that has acquired the site navigation site 265; March 30, 2009, its United Giant Whale network launched a free authentic music search, which is Google's first time in the world to launch a product for the needs of Chinese users.

As of press, CNET learned from another source that Lee may have invested hundreds of millions of yuan to start an innovative project. But the current has not been convinced by Kai-Fu Lee himself.

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About Kai-Fu Lee

1988-1990 Assistant professor of computer science, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

1990-1996 Apple Computer (Vgcs Manager, director of Multimedia lab, global vice President, Interactive Multimedia Division)

1996-1998 American SGI Computer Company (Global Vice president of Network Product department, President of Cosmo subsidiary)

1998-2004 United States Microsoft (Microsoft China Research Institute Dean, Natural Interaction Department Global vice President)

1988 the most important invention award of American Businessweek (speech recognition)

1989 World Othello Chess champion

1991 Best Thesis Award of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

July 1998 joined the Microsoft Company, and in November as Microsoft China Research Institute (now Microsoft) Kai-Fu Lee, Vice president of Microsoft Corporation, responsible for the company's natural interactive services, is committed to the development of user interface to become more simple and natural technology and services.

2000 Academician of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers

July 2005, Kai-Fu Lee left Microsoft, Lightning joined Google, and as the president of Google China.