Chinese web giant Baidu is partnering up with Microsoft's search engine Bing, to offer its English language functions to foreign users.
中国网站巨头百度将与微软旗下的搜索引擎“必应”合作，为国外用户提供英语的搜索功能。
Baidu released the news in an emailed statement on Monday. The tie-up will direct English searches from Baidu to Microsoft's Bing, which will deliver the results back to Baidu's Web pages.
百度是星期一的时候在一份电邮声明中发布该消息的。它们的连结会将英文搜索从百度发送到微软的“必应”，“必应”再将搜索结果发送回百度的网页。
Baidu currently has about 80 percent of the search market in China -- a nation with almost half a billion Internet users. While Bing is struggling to make a big name for itself in the online world.
目前，百度占中国搜索市场的80%左右，中国是一个互联网用户接近5亿的国家。而“必应”正努力在网络世界提升他们的知名度。
So partnering with Baidu enables both companies to spread their influence. But some analysts are sceptical over how much demand there will be for English searches on Baidu.
所以和百度的合作能扩大这两家公司的影响力。但是一些分析家置疑，百度上的英文搜索会有多大需求。