Baidu, the world's largest Chinese search engine and the largest Chinese website. Founded in June 2000 in Zhongguancun, Beijing.
1At the end of 999, Li Yanhong, who was in Silicon Valley, saw the great development potential of China's Internet and Chinese search engine services. With the dream that technology will change the world, he resolutely quit his high-paying job in Silicon Valley, and with the patented technology of search engine, he founded Baidu Company in Zhongguancun on June 65438+ 10/. From the initial less than 10, the number of employees has now exceeded 12000. Today, Baidu has become the most popular and influential Chinese website in China.
With thousands of R&D engineers, Baidu is the best technical team in China and even in the world. This team holds the most advanced search engine technology in the world, which makes Baidu a China high-tech enterprise with the core technology of the world's cutting-edge science in China, and also makes China one of the only four countries in the world with the core technology of search engines except the United States, Russian and Korean.
Since its inception, Baidu has taken "making it easy for people to get information and find what they want" as its mission. Since its establishment, the company has been adhering to the concept of "user-oriented", constantly insisting on technological innovation, and committed to providing users with "simple and reliable" Internet search products and services, including: functional search based on network search, community search based on post bar, and vertical search for various regions and industries. And portal channels, IM, etc. , has fully covered all the search needs of the Chinese online world. According to authoritative data from third parties, Baidu's search share in China is close to 80%.
Faced with the continuous enrichment of users' search products, Baidu also innovatively launched search-based marketing promotion services, becoming the most popular Internet marketing promotion platform for enterprises. At present, hundreds of thousands of domestic enterprises have used Baidu's search promotion service, which has continuously improved their own brands and operational efficiency. Through continuous business model innovation, Baidu is further promoting the economic growth of the entire Internet industry and small and medium-sized enterprises, and promoting social and economic development and transformation.
In order to promote the development of millions of small and medium-sized websites in China, Baidu has established the world's largest network alliance by combining all high-quality websites with the advantages of super-large traffic platform, which has greatly enhanced the value and coverage of search promotion and brand marketing of various enterprises. At the same time, with the help of the alliance family, every website has the greatest opportunity for survival and development.
As a well-known enterprise in China, Baidu has been adhering to the responsibility concept of "bridging the information gap and enjoying the knowledge society" and insisting on fulfilling the social responsibility of corporate citizens. Since its establishment, Baidu has taken advantage of its own advantages to actively participate in public welfare undertakings, invested huge resources to create special search products for the blind, children and the elderly, solved the internet problem of special groups, and greatly bridged the social information gap. In addition, Baidu has been in the leading position in accelerating the informatization process in China, purifying the network environment, educating search engines and improving the employment rate of college students. 20 1 1 At the beginning of the year, Baidu also set up a Baidu Foundation to manage and practice public welfare undertakings in a more systematic and standardized manner around the fields of knowledge education, environmental protection and disaster relief.
In 2005, Baidu went public on NASDAQ, breaking many records such as the highest increase on the first day, becoming the first China company to enter NASDAQ. Through several years of market performance, Baidu's excellent performance and reliable returns have made it a representative of China's corporate value and stand proudly in the global capital market.
In 2009, Baidu launched a brand-new concept of box computing technology, and based on this concept, launched Baidu Open Platform, which helped more outstanding third-party developers to use the Internet platform to innovate and start businesses, greatly improved the Internet experience of netizens, and at the same time promoted the R&D industrial innovation upsurge around user needs, which had a great pulling effect on the upgrading and development of the Internet industry in China.
Today, Baidu has become one of the most valuable brands in China. The Financial Times listed Baidu as the "Top Ten World-class Brands in China", making it the youngest company in the list and the only Internet company. A series of honorary titles, such as "the most respected enterprise in Asia", "the most innovative enterprise in the world" and "China Internet Power Star", all show Baidu's achievements in the past few years.
Over the years, the "simple and reliable" core culture led by Baidu Chairman and CEO Robin Li has been deeply rooted in Baidu. This is a vibrant, realistic and frank company. It takes the search to change life, promote the progress of human civilization and promote the economic development of China as its own responsibility, and is moving towards a more ambitious goal.