Google fights Baigu back!

Baidu Inc. dominates China's Internet search market even with Google Inc. and the key to the mistery is in the amount of ilegal amount of free unlicensed music downloads that Baidu offer.

Google now is about to fight back in a joint venture with Top100 Inc. with free music downloads (licensed).

The idea: Better-quality files will draw users away from unlicensed downloads, and give labels and search companies valuable data needed to make money from advertising, say people familiar with the plans. Also let record labels know how often their music is downloaded.

At the moment just Vivendi SA's Universal Music is the only big company in the project but EMI and Sony BMG are thinking about it.

We'll see how this works, if it does be sure you'll be able to read it here.

Picture from Music 2.0 and information from Shanghai Daily.