Xiao Shi COMP 2903 OCT 28, 2010

SUMMARY  Introduction of Baidu  Contrast between Baidu and Google  Difference between Baidu and Google  Conclusion

Background  Baidu is the leading search engine in China  It was co-founded in 1999 by Robin Li  Baidu created a shopping mall of Web offerings

Main page of Baidu

Contrast 1  Search images of “acadia university” on both search engines

Search on Google

Search on Baidu

Contrast 2  Search maps on both search engines

Search on Google

Search on Baidu

Differences  Baidu:  1. not very accurate  2. does not have good search in other languages  3. limited output  Google  1. accurate  2. can search anything by any languages  3. more outputs

Conclusion  The range of Google search is larger than that of Baidu.  Baidu has good command of Chinese search and it does not do well in English search.  Google is better than Baidu in a large degree.

Sources  The New York Time “Baidu Inc.” from: inc/index.html inc/index.html  Baidu. URL:  Wikipedia. “Google”. From  CNN “Baidu: China’s Google can’t be beat”. From:  Baidu Images: URL:  Baidu Maps: URL:  Google Images: URL:  Google Maps: URL:

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