Baidu, Inc. (Chinese: 百度; pinyin: Bǎidù, NASDAQ: BIDU), 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.[3]
Baidu offers many services, including a Chinese 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.[4] Baidu was established in 2000 by co-founders, Robin Li and Eric Xu. Both of the co-founders are Chinese nationals who have studied and worked overseas before returning to China. Baidu.com Inc. is registered in the Cayman Islands.[5] In February 2011, Baidu ranked 66th overall in Alexa's internet rankings.[6] 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%.[7] In December 2007, Baidu became the first Chinese company to be included in the NASDAQ-100 index.[8]
Baidu provides an index of over 740 million web pages, 80 million images, and 10 million multimedia files.[9] Baidu offers multi-mediacontent including MP3 music and movies, and is the first in China to offer WAP and PDA-based mobile search.
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