1. Xiao Shi COMP 2903 OCT 28, 2010

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

3. 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

4. Main page of Baidu

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

6. Search on Google

7. Search on Baidu

8. Contrast 2  Search maps on both search engines

9. Search on Google

10. Search on Baidu

11. 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

12. 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.

13. Sources  The New York Time. 2010. “Baidu Inc.” from: http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/baiducom- inc/index.html http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/baiducom- inc/index.html  Baidu. URL: http://www.baidu.comhttp://www.baidu.com  Wikipedia. “Google”. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googlehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google  CNN. 2010. “Baidu: China’s Google can’t be beat”. From: http://money.cnn.com/2010/10/22/technology/thebuzz/index.htm http://money.cnn.com/2010/10/22/technology/thebuzz/index.htm  Baidu Images: URL: http://image.baidu.com/http://image.baidu.com/  Baidu Maps: URL: http://map.baidu.com/http://map.baidu.com/  Google Images: URL: http://www.google.ca/imghp?hl=en&tab=wihttp://www.google.ca/imghp?hl=en&tab=wi  Google Maps: URL: http://maps.google.ca/http://maps.google.ca/

14. Thank you for your listening

15. Questions?