Last year the US company Yahoo! set up a Chinese-language search engine site in Taiwan, and Microsoft is also set to enter the Chinese website market. At present there are over 50 Internet companies in Taiwan whose future plans feature search engines. 1999 is shaping up to be a year of intense competition in Taiwan's corner of cyberspace.
美國雅虎去年在台灣成立華文搜尋網站，微軟也將進軍中文網站市場，目前台灣就有五十多家網路公司以「搜尋引擎」為經營目標，一九九九年的台灣網路界已是百家爭鳴。