Tag Archives : Baidu

With the withdrawal of the search giant, Google Inc. from China, the nation’s foremost search engine, Baidu, has now chosen Microsoft Bing as its preferred search partner. This latest deal between Microsoft and Baidu calls for Bing to provide search results in English on Baidu’s website. As Google is considered to be the king of search in the [...]

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 for Google in China, gave a lecture in a Chinese [...]

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” [...]