Internet Companies of China: Baidu, Alibaba Group, Alibaba.Com,

Chapters: Baidu, Alibaba Group, Alibaba.com, . Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 22. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Baidu, Inc. (Chinese: pinyin: B idu, NASDAQ: BIDU), simply known as Baidu and incorporated on January 18, 2000, is 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. 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. In April 2010, Baidu ranked 7 overall in Alexa's internet rankings. 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 multi-media content including MP3 music and movies, and is the first in China to offer WAP and PDA-based mobile search. Baidu proactively censors its content in line with government regulations. The name Baidu is a quote from the last line of Xin Qiji's classical poem Green Jade Table in The Lantern Festival saying: Having searched for him hundreds and thousands of times in the crowd, suddenly turning back by chance, I find him there in the dimmest candlelight. The context of the poem is that in ancient China, girls had to stay indoors and the Lantern Festival was one of the few times they could come out. In the sea and chaos of lantern lights, they would sneak away to meet their love and exchange promises to meet again next year. A summary of the entire poem: Flowers bursting into bloom in the sky, stars falling like rain (...http: //booksllc.net/?id=1676048