On June 65438+1 October12000, the founders of the company, Li Yanhong and Xu Yong, returned to China from Silicon Valley in the United States with $65438+20,000 in venture capital, and founded Baidu Company. Baidu set the goal of building China people's own Chinese search engine at the beginning of its establishment, and is willing to make unremitting efforts for this goal.
In May 2000, Baidu first provided search technology services for the portal-Silicon Valley Power, and then quickly occupied the search engine market in China, becoming the most important search technology provider. In August, 20001,the beta version of Baidu.com search engine was released, and it changed from background service to independent search service, which was the first business model of bidding ranking in China. 200 1 year1October 22nd, Baidu search engine was officially released.
On August 5, 2005, Baidu went public on Nasdaq, becoming the most striking listed company in the global capital market in 2005, and Baidu entered a brand-new development stage.
User service program
Over the past six years, Baidu has been tirelessly pursuing technological innovation, relying on the profound wisdom of China, and is committed to providing users with "simple and reliable" Internet search services.
Baidu responds to more than hundreds of millions of search requests from 138 countries every day. Users can instantly find relevant search results through Baidu's homepage. These results come from Baidu's database of more than 654.38 billion Chinese web pages, and the number of these web pages is increasing by tens of millions every day.
At the same time, users can search for information without visiting Baidu's homepage. More than 30,000 members of the search alliance combine Baidu search into their own websites in various ways, allowing users to search Baidu at any time when surfing the Internet. Baidu also provides WAP and PDA search services. Even if there is no PC around, users can search Baidu through wireless platforms such as mobile phones or handheld computers.
Baidu has been committed to listening to, exploring and meeting the needs of netizens in China, adhering to the concept of "user experience first", providing diversified search services such as MP3, documents, maps, love and movies, taking the lead in creating a search community represented by Post Bar and Zhihu, and integrating the wisdom of countless netizens into the search. "Baidu once" has become a new verb for people to search.
customer service
Baidu also provides software, competitive ranking and related advertising services for various enterprises. Every month, more than 5,000 enterprises obtain business opportunities through Baidu, 50,000 enterprises use Baidu's bidding ranking service, and more than 300 large enterprises use Baidu's search advertising service.
Baidu will not be satisfied with this, and technological innovation will never end. Baidu will, as always, focus on Internet search engines, and make people's lives better with advanced search technology and quality services through unremitting efforts.
Chairman and CEO-Li Yanhong
199 1 graduated from Peking University majoring in information management, and then went to new york state university in Buffalo to complete the master's degree in computer science. During his eight years in the United States, Mr. Li Yanhong successively served as a senior consultant of Dow Jones Company, a designer of the online real-time financial information system of The Wall Street Journal, and a senior engineer of INFOSEEK, an internationally renowned Internet company. He is an authoritative expert in the field of new generation Internet technology. Is he Lu? The real-time financial system designed by Jones Company is still widely used in the websites of major Wall Street companies, including the online version of The Wall Street Journal.
Li Yanhong first created ESP technology and successfully applied it to the search engine of Infoseek/go.com.go. COM's image search engine is another technological innovation with great application value.
In 1996, he first solved the problem of how to perfectly combine the ranking based on web page quality with the ranking based on relevance, and thus obtained an American patent;
65438-0998 Based on the experience of working and living in Silicon Valley, the book Commercial Wars in Silicon Valley was published in Chinese mainland, which won favorable comments from all walks of life.
1At the end of 999, he returned to China with venture capital and founded Baidu with his good friend Mr. Xu Yong.
200 1, selected as "Top Ten Pioneers in China";
In 2002 and 2003, he was awarded the title of "Top Ten IT Man of the Year" in the first and second sessions.
In 2004, 65438+1October, 65438+May was elected as the second "Thirteen New Talents in Beijing";
In April 2004, he was elected as the second "Top Ten Outstanding Youth of China Software";
In June 2005, he was elected as a member of all-china youth federation.
On August 23rd, 2005, he won the12nd ASEAN Youth Award.
On February 28th, 2005, 65438, he was awarded "CCTV2005 China Economic Person of the Year".
Chief Operating Officer-Zhu Hongbo
1992 graduated from Beihang University. He used to be the vice president of Beijing UFIDA Software Group, the vice president of Hampton Management Consulting Company and the CEO of Motive Power Information Technology Co., Ltd. ... He joined Baidu in 2002 as the senior vice president, responsible for brand promotion and enterprise software business. From June 2004, 5438+ 10, he has been the chief operating officer, responsible for the overall operation of the company. Mr. Zhu Hongbo has more than 12 years of IT experience and rich experience in the fields of software and Internet.
Chief Financial Officer-Wang Zhansheng
In September 2004, he officially joined Baidu as the chief financial officer. Before joining Baidu, he was a partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers International Capital Market Department, responsible for assisting the work in the Asia-Pacific region, especially providing information services related to initial public offering, private placement and cross-border mergers and acquisitions for enterprises in Greater China. He has accumulated rich experience in corporate financial reporting and information disclosure, American accounting standards and international accounting standards, American securities regulatory requirements, and corporate international capital market strategies. From 2002 1 1 to 2003 1, he was the full-time technical consultant of the issuance department of China Securities Regulatory Commission. He is also a consultant of China Accounting Standards Committee. Mr. Wang Zhansheng has long been engaged in domestic work in international capital markets in new york, London and Hongkong, and has rich experience in international capital markets, financial management and accounting.
Chief Technology Officer of Liu Jianguo
I graduated from Computer Science and Engineering Department of Xi Jiaotong University with a bachelor's degree and graduated from Computer Science and Technology Department of Peking University with a master's degree. 199 1-2000, taught in the computer department of Peking University, and 1999 was named as an associate professor. 1997- 1998 was a visiting scholar in the computer science department of UIUC, USA. Joined Baidu in early 2000. He presided over the development of China's first large-scale Chinese and English search engine system ("Skynet") and the first message-oriented middleware product ("Yin Yan"). He has rich experience in software development management, project management, department management and personnel management. Now he is responsible for the rules, research and management related to technology and engineering of the company, ensuring that Baidu is in a leading position in the world in Chinese search service. In February 2006, he was appointed as chief technology officer of Baidu.
Vice President of Marketing, Liang Dong
From June 5438+ 10, 2005, he became the vice president of Baidu Company, responsible for the formulation and implementation of the company's market public relations strategy and the management of user experience. At the same time, assist the company to cooperate with the media, film, music and publishing industries in an all-round way to promote closer communication between Baidu and the public. Mr. Liang Dong once worked for Phoenix Satellite TV, and he is one of the most famous Chinese program editors and hosts in the Asia-Pacific region. He has a profound and clear insight into the interests of China people in the transitional period. Mr. Liang Dong has rich experience in advertising and public relations. Before entering Baidu for three years, I worked as a senior brand marketing consultant (4A member) of Jiuyi Communication Group, a brand management company of Guangdong Mobile, M-Zone and Tencent QQ.