China's Google launches Wikipedia-like site
Taking it's cue from the US based "collective intelligence" online encyclopedia Wikipedia, Baidu, China's most popular search engine, has started a user-generated encyclopedia of its own called Baidupedia. The site seems to be gaining popularity, made easier by the fact that Wikipedia is banned by the Communist Party. Yet the Financial Times is skeptical about the long-term success of Baidupedia because it is highly censored which is against the basic principles of Wikis.
Source: Financial Times (through the European Journalism Centre)
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