China Is Nationalizing Its Tech Sector
Comparison<p>Baidu - Google<p>Baidu is horrid, even in Chinese. Baidu doesn&#x27;t have nearly as big stronghold on advertising in Chinese market as Google has in every market outside of China. End of discussion.<p>Alibaba - Amazon<p>On commercial side, Alibaba steamrolls Amazon with some margin remaining. Tech-wise, Alibaba sucks big time. Their search algo is something horrid. Alibaba has a relatively big part of Internet ads pie in comparison to Amazon.<p>They need more competent tech people, or better to say let more competent people to lead, and less talking big. I personally knew the person who nearly single-handedly created half of all business Alibaba group has outside of China, yet he did quit the company because he was denied promotion and never given recognition for his efforts. Moreover, his superiors were intentionally keeping quiet of his existence and appropriating credit for his work.<p>Tencent - Facebook<p>Company-wise Tencent is way better on focus and management quality. People there are very well conscious what the company needs and for what. They don&#x27;t have much random RnD initiatives or &quot;see what sticks to the wall&quot; internal startups.<p>Their money cow are their horrid mobile games, and WeChat wallet.<p>While they are unquestionably a social network company, they are almost invisible as such. WeChat team prides themselves on their &quot;Zero popups&quot; experience.<p>Their idea is plain - solidly done, undisturbed by ads social side of the ecosystem must be kept as such so that users will have less impediment to use value added services from the commercial side of the ecosystem when they want to. This is what FB can&#x27;t do.