Posts Tagged ‘Baidu’

Baidu may be a victim of ‘Iranian Cyber Army’

Tuesday, January 12, 2010 18:00 By NARUTO

The so called “Iranian Cyber Army” took the main page of the search engine most used in China, Baidu. The raid happened on Tuesday, after having done the same with Twitter in December.
The press ran pictures of the home page of Baidu showing the message: “This site has been taken by the Iranian Cyber Army” [...]

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Kai-Fu Lee leaves Google

Friday, September 4, 2009 17:51 By NARUTO

For many youths in China, Kai-Fu Lee is a celebrity. Not at the level of the movie stars as Edison Chen or the vocalists of the ‘boysband’ F4, but for an IT engineer 49 year-old that almost always appears in a sober dark jacket, he can really gather a crowd.
When Lee, then head of operations [...]

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A Website Apologizes to China

Wednesday, January 7, 2009 8:32 By GSerrano

China has accused both Google and Baidu as peddlers of filth. Baidu is known as China’s Google. According to the Chinese government, the country has “decided to launch a nationwide campaign to clean up a vulgar current on the Internet.” 19 Internet operators and websites that were previously identified have not removed their “vulgar” contents, [...]

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