CHINICT 2010: Wukong

May 27, 2010 | Filed Under CHINICT |

In brief: Li Sicheng, Vice-President, Wukong, is talking about competing to become the #1 mobile search engine, and was @goldkorn (Jeremy Goldkorn), chief editor, Danwei.

This is a summary of tweets posted during the interview.

  • Interviewed by @goldkorn in Chinese. Of Danwei fame. Talks about wireless Net companies in China.

  • Wireless Web is not developing as fast as some folks might think.
  • By wireless we’re more about mobile.
  • No, or very few, mobile content companies have made it listed.
  • Li joined in 2002. Has a lot of competitors in the mobile market. Baidu, Google.
  • Li: if we just focused on content search we’d have no way out. They’ve more users, cash.
  • If we did what they were doing — it wouldn’t work: Li.
  • Going into a new generation of mobile search. The Web is all around us. Do users know what they want to see? Nah…
  • They’re going into push. Based on “guesswork” they’re hoping users will like it. “Third-gen” of mobile search.
  • Goldkorn mentions the iPhone. Li: Chinese mobile web mainly on GPRS. 1/5th of theoretical speed limit used.
  • Li: Client apps — another “CN special”: 70% of mobile phones will only do WAP 1.2 (some do 2.0); none for Flash, HTML.
  • Goldkorn on iPhone, Android, will it work in China? Li: We’ve to support all. Not a real question for us.
  • Li: Has to cover 98% of the whole market.
  • Li: Hopes to go listed in next 5 years.
  • Thank you Li.

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