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Google taps into China's group buying market
Updated: 2011-09-14 17:56
By Sun Yuanqing (chinadaily.com.cn)
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MixxSearch engine giant Google Inc launched a new group buying service called Google Shihui on Tuesday in China, marking its presence in a market that has over 4,000 participants.
The deals site collates and catalogs deals from various group buying websites. Google didn't elaborate on how it would make profit on this new service, the Beijing News reported.
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