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What's about the value of the company? In my mind, i think the value at the NASDAQ is at 4 Billion Dollars. An the conversion per year is at 8 million dollars and only 1 million winning cash.

Excuse my bad english, but i'm Swiss German ;)

Can anyone wright about that and about the phenomen that's in the direction of the New Economy and dot.com-Boom?


Kind regards and thanks,

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[edit] Meaning of "Baidu"

Could someone whose Chinese is better than mine add an explanation of what "Baidu" means?

Literally, it's 100 degrees or occasions. As far as I can find, it is a quote from a poem where the author is searching for someone in a crowd. But perhaps it is also a reference to 10100, which is a Googol... Apparently that's the same pun that partly gave Google its name. --JRawle 17:59, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

So should it mean 100x or 100 degrees? I thought it meant 100 degrees, but the pun with googol is quite interesting
Someone tried to add some advertising spam to the article today, but the first part of it was interesting:
Many people have asked about the meaning of Baidu's name. "Baidu" was inspired by a poem written more than 800 years ago during the Song Dynasty. The poem compares the search for a retreating beauty amid chaotic glam Baidu's with the search for one's dream while confronted by life's many obstacles. "…hundreds and thousands of times, for her I searched in chaos, suddenly, I turned by chance, to where the lights Baidure waning, and there she stood." Baidu, whose literal meaning is hundreds of times, represents persistent search for the ideal.
Something like that could be added to the article.
--JRawle 15:07, 24 November 2005 (UTC)

Hello yall, I am a Chinese and I would like to confirm that the name Baidu in Chinese does indeed translate to "one hundred degree". The other explainations provided are interesting. I have personaly never heared anything like that but it definitely might still be true.

I would like to suggest that we include the other possible meanings but focus on the litral one. Can someone who is native in English please provide a draft? Thanks in advance.

Yongke 19:27, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Minor edit conflict regarding names

user:Aish Warya wants director names stated as such:

Li Bungsie, founder, chairman, CEO
Shawn Wang, CFO
Zhu Hongbo, COO

While user:Jiang would prefer them to be presented as the following, as listed in [1]:

Robin Li, Chairman, CEO
Shawn Wang, CFO
David Zhu, COO

Any thoughts on the matter?

[edit] Chinese government censorship

Should some mention be made of the nature of Baidu's relationship with the Chinese government censors? Recent announcements of restrictions of news media and "cooperation" by Yahoo and Google to provide info and block sites found "objectionable" by the Chinese government are mentioned in Wikipedia ([2]), Wikinews [3] [4]) and Western news sites ([5]). Quoting the 17 September 2006 New York Times article (#3 under article references): "While Baidu continues to gain market share in China — and does so with a Web site that the Chinese government heavily censors and that gives priority to advertising rather than relevant search results...In exchange for letting censors oversee its Web site, Baidu has sealed its dominance with support from the Chinese government, which regularly blocks Google here and imposes strict rules and censorship on other foreign Internet companies." In fact, Wikipedia itself is blocked by China since 1995. [6] Are we telling the full story here? Ryanjo 14:51, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

How, why, and when some keywords are censored (e.g. Nanking Massacre) is never revealed to the public. But I recall Google China has a server in the firewall to initiate connections from inside then remove inaccessible links in the seatch results. --Skyfiler 15:11, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
I suggest that something like this statement be placed under the "Services" section:
Baidu, along with Google China, Yahoo! China, Microsoft, Cisco, AOL, Skype, and others, has cooperated with the Chinese government in implementing a system of Internet censorship in mainland China.
A statement such as proposed by Skyfiler could be additional content if a reference on the technology is found.
I also placed a statement that Baidu uses the same "pay-per-click" model for ad revenues as Google. Ryanjo 21:45, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
Source: New York Times
Brin's team had one more challenge to confront: how to determine which sites to block? The Chinese government wouldn't give them a list. So Google's engineers hit on a high-tech solution. They set up a computer inside China and programmed it to try to access Web sites outside the country, one after another. If a site was blocked by the firewall, it meant the government regarded it as illicit — so it became part of Google's blacklist. [7]
Hope this helps.--Skyfiler 02:55, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Search capabilities

Can Baidu "search text and images" or can it search text and search for images? --Sam Francis

Baidu DOES NOT have the same Pay per click system as Google. It IS a pay for performance listing, meaning you pay a yearly fee to be ranked either 1-3 or 4-10 etc —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.14.237.38 (talk) 21:05, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] POV

The main focus of the company was web search, not mp3 search, as the article claimed. Also, this article express only a scattered and fragmentary view from the West. 222.130.194.253 22:15, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] This article's English

Why is this article's grammar so horrible? This is the English-language Wikipedia page, regardless of the subject matter. I would correct it myself, but Wikipedia's increasingly-onerous policies towards unregistered users discourages me from contributing anything besides commentary on talk pages. 71.131.194.12 01:51, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] What does this have to do with Baidu?

Just one year after its launch, almost two thirds (63%) of the European online population are aware of the .eu Internet top level domain name and 45 % know that they, as residents of EU, can get their own .eu domain name. These are some of the findings of a survey conducted by the independent company, InSites, on behalf of EURid.

This is a discussion about .eu domain names, not Baidu. Why is it in this article? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.235.1.34 (talk) 00:49, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

There is also a Baidu.eu website, and the Wikipedians decided to merge it into this article under the section heading "Baidu Europe". --72.75.64.192 06:31, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
Baidu and Baidu Europe are two unrelated entities. Trademark issues aside, there should be separate entries. Qgyu 03:55, 29 September 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Shawn Wang, CFO of Baidu.com Inc, dies 27 Dec 07

"BEIJING, Dec 30 (Reuters) - Shawn Wang, chief financial officer of top Chinese Internet search firm Baidu.com Inc (BIDU.O: Quote, Profile, Research), died in an accident on Dec. 27, the company said.

The accident happened in China while Wang was on vacation over the Christmas holiday, Baidu said in a statement."

http://www.reuters.com/article/newIssuesNews/idUSPEK20364620071230

-- 201.37.229.117 (talk) 18:14, 30 December 2007 (UTC)