Google China Chief Lee Kaifu Resigned

In a sudden move, Google China President Lee Kaifu said he would leave the company later this month.

But, industry insiders have been talking about that Lee Kaifu is only the face person for Google China for a long time. The real person in charge is John Liu, the head of sales, Google hired from SK Telecom in 2008.

Lee used to the only one left among the first batch of executives Google hired in China, now, every one of them has gone. This is in fact good for Google, as they are not the right kind anyway - too many of them come from multinational companies, and they are not familiar with local culture.

John Liu understands Chinese users and Chinese business environment better, if he is in charge and if he is also in charge of Google's R&D direction in China, Google can have a better chance of coming up with popular applications in China - and catch up with Baidu.

Lee's ideas are similar to Google headquarters’, but they seemed too sophisticate to the ordinary Chinese internet users - who are just young people looking for fun, and friend, online. That's why Baidu's MP3 and now Post Bar are magnet to them.