Beijing — The billionaire founder of China’s top internet search engine has declared he will fight fiercely and "win again" should Alphabet’s Google decide to return to the world’s largest internet arena. Baidu CEO Robin Li, responding for the first time to reports the US search titan is plotting a return to a market it largely pulled out of in 2010, said on social media he’s confident of eliminating Google if needed. Li’s post, to friends via his personal WeChat account, comes as Baidu’s shares have slid about 6% since the Intercept reported Google was designing a censored search engine to deploy in China within a year. "If Google decides to return to China, we are very confident that we will PK once again and win again," he said, using a gaming term that’s come to mean to compete against. "In 2010, when Google withdrew from China, its market share was declining and Baidu’s market share had exceeded 70%." Google is looking at ways to re-enter China, home to the biggest pool of inte...
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