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"Baidu, China's largest search engine, has begun courting Brazil's emerging online population with the introduction of a Portuguese-language version of its Hao123 link-list website.\r\n\r\nEarlier this year, reports claimed that Baidu was looking to open an office\u00A0in S\u00E3o Paolo, Brazil later this year. An executive for the company confirmed in February that it was preparing to break into the market. Given that\u00A0it chose a directory site for its first Brazil-focused product,\u00A0Baidu appears to have opted to make a quiet entrance rather than a big splash.\r\n\r\nThe company also just opened a research center in Singapore with plans to work on Portuguese in addition to Arabic and Southeast Asia languages such as Thai and Vietnamese.\u00A0It's worth pointing out for those with a sense of irony that the Portuguese version of Hao123 features a Google search box because Baidu's search engine is not yet optimized for the language.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nHao123.com\u00A0contains a collection of links to useful websites for specific regions. The site launched first in Chinese, but has since expanded to Thai, Vietnamese\u00A0and Arabic. In a recent interview, a spokesperson for the company said it plans to open up other languages and regions for the directory soon.\u00A0Vietnam also saw the introduction of a localized version of Baidu Tie Ba, the company's &amp;quot;PostBar&amp;quot; forum service, earlier in July, but it has been met with criticism for its decision not to host it on a domestic domain.\r\n\r\nBaidu, which makes up nearly 80 percent\u00A0of China's search traffic, reported its second-quarter earnings this week, posting $859 million in revenue and $1.26 per share in earnings.\r\n\r\nBy the way, if Baidu jumping in isn't enough to convince you that Brazil is a hot place for tech right now, you should drop in on\u00A0TNW Latin America, which runs from August 22-23 in\u00A0S\u00E3o Paulo."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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