• by Laurie Sullivan  @lauriesullivan, July 5, 2011

While U.S. workers enjoyed a long holiday weekend to celebrate Independence Day, Microsoft announced a deal with Baidu, the largest Chinese search engine, to support English-Language searches in China. All English-language searches on Baidu will be redirected through Bing.

"The search results powered by Bing will begin appearing on Baidu search result Web pages starting in July 2011," said a Microsoft spokesperson. "We've been working with Baidu on the advertising front for some time. In China, Baidu's ad platform is used and is similar to adCenter in the U.S."

(More in Search Marketing Daily: July 5, 2011.)