Li Yanhong, founder of Baidu
Formerly the world's largest Chinese search engine, it was founded in Zhongguancun, Beijing in June 2000. Baidu's mission is to make it easy for people to get information and find what they want. Baidu's core values are "simple and reliable". 1At the end of 999, Li Yanhong, who was in Silicon Valley of the United States, saw the great development potential of Internet and Chinese search engine services in China. With the dream of changing the world with technology, he resolutely resigned from his high-paying job in Silicon Valley and returned to China with Xu Yong. In June 2000, 65438+ 10 1 established Baidu China Company in Zhongguancun. Registered in Cayman Islands, England. From the initial less than 10, the number of employees has now exceeded 10000. Today, Baidu has become the most popular and influential Chinese website in China. With thousands of R&D engineers, Baidu is the best technical team in China and even in the world. This team holds the most advanced search engine technology in the world, making Baidu a high-tech enterprise in China that China holds the core technology of the world's cutting-edge science. Since its inception, Baidu has taken "making it easy for people to get information and find what they want" as its mission. 1 1 For years, the company has been adhering to the concept of "user-oriented", consistently responding to the needs of the majority of netizens, and constantly providing users with various products based on search engines, including: functional search based on online search and community search based on post bars. The vertical search, Mp3 search, portal channel and IM required by various regions and industries have fully covered all the search needs of the Chinese online world. According to authoritative data from third parties, Baidu's search share in China is over 70%. In the face of the continuous enrichment of users' search products, search promotion serving vibrant enterprises came into being. Over the years, search promotion has greatly promoted the survival and development of hundreds of thousands of small and medium-sized enterprises in China. Search promotion and baidu promotion based on search promotion have also developed rapidly. Large enterprises, mainly the top 500 enterprises in the world and the top 500 enterprises in China, carry out brand promotion based on search promotion on Baidu search platform, which has created extraordinary benefits for brand promotion and product promotion of enterprises. At the same time, Baidu has responded to the demands of netizens in recent years and entered the field of C2C e-commerce to provide more and better one-stop services for netizens. In order to promote the development of millions of small and medium-sized websites in China, Baidu has established the world's largest network alliance by combining all high-quality websites with the advantages of super-large traffic platform, which has greatly enhanced the value and coverage of search promotion and brand marketing of various enterprises. At the same time, with the help of the alliance family, every website has the greatest opportunity for survival and development.
Li Yanhong rang the opening bell of Nasdaq remotely at Baidu headquarters.
On August 5th, 2005, Baidu was listed on NASDAQ (stock code: BIDU). On the day of listing, Baidu became the most dazzling star in the global capital market that year. Through several years' market performance, its excellent performance and trustworthy return make it a representative of China's corporate value and stand proudly in the global capital market. 20 1 1 On March 24th, the market value of Baidu (Nasdaq:BIDU) closed at USD 46.072 billion, exceeding that of Tencent (00700. HK) 23rd. In the past five years, the title of China No.1 Internet Company changed hands for the first time. [1] On October 23rd, 2008/kloc-0, 65438+, Baidu Japan Company officially put into operation, and its internationalization strategy was fully launched. Over the years, Li Yanhong, chairman and CEO of Baidu, has led Baidu people to form a "simple and reliable" core culture, which is deeply rooted in Baidu. This is a vibrant, realistic and frank company. It takes the search to change life, promote the progress of human civilization and promote the economic development of China as its own responsibility, and is moving towards a more ambitious goal. [2][3][4] Edit the origin of Baidu in this paragraph.
[5] The word "Baidu" originated from the poem "Jade Case Yuan Xi" written by Xin Qiji, a poet in the Southern Song Dynasty: "Looking for a Thousand Baidu in the crowd", which symbolizes Baidu's persistent pursuit of Chinese information retrieval technology. The creativity of "bear's paw" icon comes from the stimulation of "hunter patrolling bear's paw", which is very similar to Dr. Li's "analytical search technology", thus forming Baidu's search concept and eventually becoming Baidu's icon image. Later, because in search engines, most of them are pictures of animals, such as Sohu's fox and Google's dog, Baidu naturally became a bear. Baidu Bear has also become the image mascot of Baidu.