Baidu
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Baidu
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Type
Public (NASDAQ: BIDU)
Founded
2000
Headquarters
Beijing, China
Key people
Robin Li, Chairman, CEO
Shawn Wang, CFO (died Dec. 27, 2007)
David Zhu, COO
Industry
Internet information providers
Products
search engine
Revenue
$107.359 million USD (2006)
Operating income
$33.685 million USD (2006)
Net income
$38.668 million USD (2006)
Employees
3,113
Website
www.baidu.com
Baidu (Chinese: ??; pinyin: Baid?) (NASDAQ: BIDU) is the leading Chinese search engine that can search websites, audio files, and images. It also has an online collaboratively-built encyclopedia similar to Wikipedia (Baidu Baike), and a searchable keyword-based discussion forums. As of September 07, 2007, it is ranked eighth in Alexa's internet rankings.[1] In December, 2007 Baidu became the first company from China to be included in the NASDAQ-100 index. [2]
Baidu provides an index of over 740 million web pages, 80 million images, and 10 million multimedia files.[3]
