On June 65438+1 October1day, the founders of the company, Li Yanhong and Xu Yong, returned from Silicon Valley in the United States and founded Baidu. At the beginning of its establishment, Baidu took "making people get information more conveniently" as its mission, and made unremitting efforts to this end.
In May 2000, Baidu first provided search technology services for the portal-Silicon Valley Power, and then quickly occupied the search engine market in China, becoming the most important search technology provider. In August, 20001,the Beta version of Baidu.com search engine was released, which changed from a background technology provider to an independent search service for the public. It also created a domestic bidding ranking business model, and Baidu search engine was officially released on 200 1 year1October 22nd.
From June, 5438 to February, 2003, Post Bar was launched in a pioneering way, which was the first time to search the community.
On August 5, 2005, Baidu went public on Nasdaq, becoming the most striking listed company in the global capital market in 2005.
On June 23, 2008, 65438+, Baidu Japan Company officially started operation, and Baidu launched its internationalization strategy in an all-round way.
It's been almost nine years since then.
Baidu (Nasdaq: BIDU) is the largest Chinese search engine in the world. It was founded by Li Yanhong and Xu Yong in Zhongguancun, Beijing in June, 2000. It is dedicated to providing people with a "simple and reliable" way to obtain information. The word "Baidu" originated from the poem "Jade Case" by Xin Qiji, a poet in the Song Dynasty: "Looking for him thousands of miles away", which symbolizes Baidu's persistent pursuit of Chinese information retrieval technology. On September 26th, 2007, China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) released "2007 China Search Engine Market Survey Report". The results showed that the preference share of Baidu users had increased from 62. 1% in 2006 to 74.5%. The previous slogan was "the world's largest Chinese search engine". Up to now (2008 165438+ 10/8), Baidu ranks 1 1 in Alexa. According to the latest statistics, the proportion of traffic brought by Chinese search engines to websites is 74.88% for Baidu, 13.54% for Google and only 3.94% for Yahoo.
Company Type: Listed Company (NASDAQ: BIDU)
Established: 1999
Headquarters: Beijing, China.
Important people:
Li Yanhong: Chairman and CEO
Li Xinzhe: Chief Financial Officer.
Slogan: Baidu, you will know.
Industry: network information service.
Products: search engine bidding ranking, e-commerce, community service, online antivirus games and entertainment, etc.
Turnover: RMB 6543.8+RMB 744 million (2007)
Pre-tax surplus: about 629 million yuan (2007)
Number of employees: about 6,000.
Official website: References:
Baidu search