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"Following in the footsteps of Google yet again, China's biggest search engine, Baidu, just revealed its plans to develop a light operating system for mobile devices that uniquely focuses on search.\r\n\r\nCNBC reports that over the coming three to five years, the company will be creating software that enables users to access a web search box within a second of starting their smartphone or tablet computer, said Robin Li, Baidu's chief executive. Baidu's\u00A0strategy is what Mr Li\u00A0calls \u201Cbox computing\u201D, a mobile operating system that could resemble Chrome OS, the light operating system Google\u00A0has developed.\r\n\u201CIn order for an operating system to work, it needs to [do a lot of processing], but if we make it just about a search box, then the task will be much simpler.\u00A0In the future, one second, you turn on the device, and you can start using the box. That\u2019s our mission for the future of the internet,\u201D he said.\r\nPriority\u00A0for the search giant is to first develop a wide range of new uses for the box before launching the basic system, with a vision of &amp;quot;transforming the search box into a universal computing tool that could replace all other interfaces.&amp;quot; The end goal, naturally, is to let people become increasingly dependent on the Baidu box.\r\n\r\nSimilarly, China Unicom, one of China\u2019s largest mobile telecommunications operators, also\u00A0announced the development of its own Linux-based operating system.\r\n\r\nChina has always been dependent on homegrown, local Internet sites and services but is being criticized for merely creating clones of popular Western Internet companies. With the strict internet censorship in place, it has been successful this far in keeping many US internet groups distanced from the world\u2019s largest Internet market."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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