Baidu, Inc. simply known as Baidu and
incorporated on January 18, 2000, is a Chinese web services company
headquartered in the Baidu Campus in Haidian District, Beijing, People’s
Republic of China. Baidu offers many services, including a Chinese
language search engine for websites, audio files, and images. Baidu
offers 57 search and community services including Baidu Baike, an online
collaboratively-built encyclopedia, and a searchable keyword-based
discussion forum. Baidu was established in 2000 by co-founders, Robin Li
and Eric Xu. Both of the co-founders are PRC nationals who studied and
worked overseas before returning to China. In June 2011, Baidu ranked
5th overall in the Alexa Internet rankings.
During Q4 of 2010, it is estimated that there were 4.02 billion search
queries in China of which Baidu had a market share of 56.6%.China’s
internet-search revenue share in second quarter 2011 by Baidu is 76% In
December 2007, Baidu became the first Chinese company to be included in
the NASDAQ-100 index. Baidu provides an index of over 740 million web
pages, 80 million images, and 10 million multimedia files. Baidu offers
multimedia content including MP3 music and movies, and is the first in
China to offer Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) and personal digital assistant (PDA) based mobile search.
www.baidu.com
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