The recently issued ‘2006 China Online Economy Research Report’ by iResearch says the penetration rate of search engines,instant messenger and email was 87.4%,83.8% and 79.3% of Internet users in China respectively in 2005.”The emerging Internet services such as blogging (bbs/blog-27%) and online magazines have accumulated a considerable amount of users.iResearch estimates that the number of Internet users in China will exceed 130 million in 2006 with a increase of 18% year on year.The compound growth rate is expected to be 10% in the next five years and the number of Internet users will rise to 232 million”.

iResearch:User Penetration Rate of Search Engines,IM and Email Ranked Top Three