百度拟开发手机操作系统

百度(Baidu)首席执行官李彦宏表示，这家中国领先的互联网搜索公司将开发一款面向移动设备的轻量级操作系统，这将是该公司在战略上又一次仿效谷歌(Google)。

李彦宏对英国《金融时报》表示，未来3至5年期间，该公司力求创建相关软件，使用户在打开智能手机或平板电脑后一秒钟内即可使用一个网上搜索框。

“要让一款操作系统运转起来，需要（完成大量处理），但如果我们把它就做成一个搜索框，那么任务就简单多了。

“现在，当你打开iPhone后，需要等45秒才能进行任何操作。未来，你打开移动设备1秒后，就能开始使用搜索框。那是我们为互联网的未来而肩负的使命，”他表示。

李彦宏此番言论为他所称的“框计算”战略提供了迄今最清晰的解释，并暗示其最终结果可能与Chrome OS相像，后者是谷歌开发的轻量级操作系统。

谷歌在2009年7月宣布将推出Chrome OS，这种操作系统面向那些把电脑或手机主要用于上网的消费者。一款网络浏览器和一款媒体播放器是该系统仅有的应用软件。

西方观察人士经常批评称，中国的互联网企业只是其西方同行的克隆版，尤其是鉴于北京方面严厉的互联网审查体系把许多美国互联网集团挡在全球网民最多的互联网市场以外，并给那些试图进入中国市场的美国企业制造了种种挑战。

一年前，谷歌将其中国网上搜索服务从中国内地的网站搬到香港网站，称该公司再也不愿忍受中国当局无止境的审查要求。根据互联网研究公司易观国际(Analysys)的数据，自那以来，这家美国公司在中国网上搜索市场所占的营收份额已跌至19.6%，而百度的市场份额则升至75%以上。

李彦宏一直表示，他想把搜索框（互联网用户用来键入他们想要搜索的词条的方框）转变为一种可取代其它所有界面的通用计算工具。“目标是让人们越来越依赖百度的搜索框，”他表示。

李彦宏表示，百度在发布基本系统之前，有意先开发搜索框的一系列新用途。“当搜索框能够完成所有那些事之后，我们将确保人们在打开设备后一秒钟内即可使用这个方框，”他表示。

Baidu plans to develop a light operating system for mobile devices, its chief executive has indicated, a strategy in which China’s leading internet search company would once again follow Google.

Over the coming three to five years, the company aimed to create software which offered use of a web search box within a second of starting their smartphone or tablet computer, Robin Li told the Financial Times.

“In 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.

“Right now when you power on an iPhone, it takes 45 seconds before you can do anything. In the future, one second, you turn on the device, and you can start using the box. That’s our mission for the future of the internet,” he said.

Mr Li’s remarks offer the clearest explanation yet of a strategy he calls “box computing”, and indicate that its ultimate result could resemble Chrome OS, the light operating system Google has developed.

That system, announced in July 2009, is aimed at consumers who mainly use their computers or phones to access the internet. A web browser and a media player are the system’s only applications.

Western observers have often criticised Chinese internet companies as mere clones of their western peers, especially as Beijing’s strict internet censorship system has kept many US internet groups out of the world’s most populous internet market and proved challenging to those who have tried to come in.

Google relocated its China web search service from its mainland website to its Hong Kong website a year ago arguing that it could no longer put up with growing censorship demands from Chinese authorities. The US company’s share of China’s web search market by revenue has since dropped to 19.6 per cent, while Baidu’s market share has risen to more than 75 per cent, according to Analysys, the internet research firm.

Mr Li has long said he wanted to transform the search box, the frame where internet users can enter the phrase they want to search for, into a universal computing tool that could replace all other interfaces. “The goal is to let people become increasingly dependent on the Baidu box,” he said.

Mr Li said Baidu intended to first develop a wide range of new uses for the box before launching the basic system. “When the box is capable of doing all those things, we then will make sure that people can get the box within one second after the power-up of the device,” he said.

Mr Li added that new internet trends such as online video and social media could challenge the dominance of search. “They may not have a direct competitive relationship with search, but at the end of the day, it’s media time. If users spend a lot of time on A, then naturally they’ll spend less time on B.”

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