Baidu to have a new mobile OS

Baidu, the biggest search engine from China, , has announced today that it will be offering its own mobile OS based on Android. The new OS, called Baidu Yi, will fork off of a version of Android and will strip all Google apps and services to be replaced with ones branded under Baidu. The plans were announced today at the company’s annual Baidu World event in Beijing.

Baidu intends to compete directly against Google’s Android distribution in China, other Android variants, and the mobile OS from Alibaba that isn’t based on Android but aims to run Android apps.

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