Baidu (Nasdaq abbreviation: BIDU) is the world's largest Chinese search engine. It was founded in Zhongguancun, Beijing in January 2000 by Robin Li and Xu Yong. It is committed to providing people with a "simple and reliable" way to obtain information.
The word "Baidu" comes from the poem "The Blue Jade Case·Yuan Xi" written by Xin Qiji, a poet from the Song Dynasty in China: "There are thousands of Baidu searches for her", which symbolizes Baidu's persistent pursuit of Chinese information retrieval technology.
Baidu homepage: / Company name: Baidu foreign name: baidu Headquarters location: Beijing, China Date of establishment: January 2000 Business scope: Network information services Company nature: A technology company with core Internet technologies Company slogan: Baidu, you will know the year
Turnover: 1.7444 billion yuan (2007) Number of employees: About 7,000 (2007) Chairman: Robin Li Company type: Public (NASDAQ (NASDAQ Stock Exchange) Abbreviation: BAIDU (BAIDU is Baidu’s August 2005
The stock code listed on Nasdaq on the 5th) Baidu, the world's largest Chinese search engine and the largest Chinese website. Founded in Zhongguancun, Beijing, in January 2000, Baidu was founded in Silicon Valley in the United States at the end of 1999.
Mr. Robin Li and Mr. Xu Yong, who have many years of successful experience in Silicon Valley in the United States, established Baidu Network Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd., its wholly-owned subsidiary in China in January 2000, and subsequently established Shenzhen in October of the same year.
Branch, and the Shanghai office was established in Shanghai in June 2001. Baidu's name expresses Baidu's confidence in its own technology. Another meaning is to break through "doing things ninety-nine degrees means doing one thing."
Baidu, achieve the state of blooming at the top. "Baidu is different from the general Internet companies. It is neither focused on the provision of Internet content nor a portal, but a company based on independently mastering and providing core Internet technologies.
type company. Today, with the rapid development of China's Internet economy, Baidu has developed China's Internet information retrieval and delivery infrastructure platform by combining the world's advanced network technology, Chinese language characteristics, and the current situation of China's Internet economic development, and uses the most advanced
The business model directly provides high-value technical service Internet products for the entire Internet in China. Baidu is China's best Internet technology provider. Since entering the Chinese Internet market, Baidu has been developing scalable products that are truly in line with Chinese people's habits.
Baidu's mission is to improve the technical content of China's Internet and help China's Internet develop faster. To this end, Baidu not only brings solutions to the basic problems of the Internet (information search and information transmission).
products, and has brought Silicon Valley-style corporate culture and new concepts of Internet applications. Now, Baidu has three product lines. In addition to the portal Chinese search engine that has been widely recognized by the industry, it also has highly targeted services for enterprises.
The emergence of Baidu’s comprehensive search product-Baidu WebSite and website acceleration technology has set up a national technology banner for China’s Internet, breaking the original situation of China’s Internet relying on foreign network technology.
Based on "Hyperlink Analysis", the search service experience provided has won the favor of the majority of users; Hyperlink Analysis evaluates the quality of linked websites by analyzing the number of linked websites, which ensures that users will be more popular when searching on Baidu.
The content ranks higher.
Baidu President Robin Li is the sole holder of the hyperlink analysis patent, and this technology has been widely used by major search engines in the world.
Baidu has the world's largest Chinese web page library, with more than 2 billion Chinese web pages included. The number of these web pages is growing at a rate of tens of millions every day; at the same time, Baidu's servers distributed across China can directly download from the nearest server.
Return the searched information to local users, allowing users to enjoy extremely fast search transmission speed.
Baidu handles hundreds of millions of search requests from more than 138 countries every day. More than 70,000 users set Baidu as their homepage every day. Users can search for the latest and most complete Chinese information in the world through the Baidu search engine.
Since 2004, "If you have any questions, search on Baidu" has become popular in China, and Baidu has become synonymous with search.
Baidu also provides software, bidding rankings, related advertising and other services to various enterprises. It provides enterprises with a marketing platform to obtain potential consumers, and provides large-scale information retrieval and management solutions for large enterprises and government agencies.
Baidu's main business model is P4P (Pay for Performance), which is a pay-for-performance online promotion method. This service provides better development opportunities for the majority of small and medium-sized enterprises in online marketing, but it also causes
Some controversy; some believe the service affects user experience.