Founded in January 2000 in Zhongguancun, Beijing, it is the world's largest Chinese search engine.
On January 1, 2000, the company's founders Robin Li and Xu Yong returned from Silicon Valley in the United States with $1.2 million in venture capital and founded Baidu. At the beginning of its establishment, Baidu set its goal to build the Chinese people's own Chinese search engine and was willing to work tirelessly towards this goal.
In May 2000, Baidu provided search technology services for the portal website Silicon Valley Dynamics for the first time, and then quickly occupied the Chinese search engine market and became the most important search technology provider. In August 2001, the Baidu.com search engine Beta version was released, shifting from back-end services to independently providing search services, and pioneered the bidding ranking business model in China. On October 22, 2001, the Baidu search engine was officially released.