Chinese introduction:
Baidu Inc. (Baidu.com, Inc.) was founded in Silicon Valley at the end of 1999. Its founders are Li Yanhong, president of Baidu, a senior information retrieval expert and the sole holder of hyperlink analysis patent, and his good friend Dr. Xu Yong, executive vice president of Baidu, who has many years of successful business experience in Silicon Valley. In 2000, Baidu returned to China to develop hyperlink analysis technology, which is the key technology of a new generation of search engines and has been widely adopted by major search engines around the world. Baidu's name comes from the inspiration of "Thousands of Baidu looking for her", which places Baidu's confidence in its own technology.
Since Baidu entered the Internet and software market in China, its mission has been to develop core Internet technologies that truly conform to the habits of Chinese people, and relying on its own strength, it has continuously developed extensible network application software with independent intellectual property rights.
Baidu's products and services are designed to meet the basic networking needs of different enterprises and institutions. The main product lines are as follows: 1. Chinese web page retrieval based on the global internet. This product line mainly serves portal websites. Second, enterprise-level information retrieval solutions, including CNC series software and Baidu enterprise competitive intelligence system. Among them, CNC series software includes website retrieval system, industry vertical retrieval system, news monitoring system, enterprise vertical retrieval system, real-time information system and information collection system. At present, these enterprise-level information retrieval solutions are serving different fields. In addition, Baidu also uses the information transmission technology provided by the huge CDN network all over the country (that is, website acceleration and network caching technology).
200 1 10 Baidu launched a brand-new search engine bidding ranking business model in time according to Mr. Li Yanhong's third law and Baidu's huge search user base. Bidding ranking refers to a service that users (usually enterprises) pay for their own web pages to rank keywords and pay per click. Through bidding ranking, the order of search results is sorted from high to low according to the number of bids, and the principle of no click and no charge is pursued. At present, websites that have joined the bidding ranking promotion camp include all major portals in China, information ports all over the country and all websites with technical support provided by Baidu. Thousands of home pages of enterprises and individuals from different fields have participated in the bidding ranking.
English introduction:
Baidu Company (Chinese: Baidu; Pinyin: BIDU, Nasdaq: BIDU), referred to as Baidu, was established on 1 6, 2000. It is a Chinese network service company headquartered in Baidu Park, Haidian District, People's Republic of China (PRC).
Baidu provides many services, including websites, Chinese search engines for audio files and images. Baidu provides 57 kinds of search and community services, including Baidu Encyclopedia, an encyclopedia established by online cooperation, and a searchable forum based on keywords. [5] Baidu was founded in 2000 by co-founders Li Yanhong and Eric Xu. The two co-founders are both citizens of China, who studied and worked overseas before returning to China. Baidu.com Company is registered in Cayman Islands. [6] In April 2065438+00, Baidu ranked 7th in Alexa's Internet ranking. [7] In 20071February, Baidu became the first China company to be included in the Nasdaq-100 index. [8]
Baidu provides an index of more than 740 million web pages, 80 million images and100000 multimedia files. [9] Baidu provides multimedia content including MP3 music and movies, and is the first company in China to provide mobile search service based on WAP and PDA.
Baidu actively censors its content according to government regulations.