Duty paid

Baidu, the world's largest Chinese search engine and the largest Chinese website. At the end of 1999, Robin Li, who was in the US Silicon Valley, saw the great potential of China's Internet and Chinese search engine services. He took the dream of technology changing the world, and he resolutely resigned from Silicon Valley's high paying job and brought the patent technology of search engine to the Baidu Inc in January 1, 2000.



The word "Baidu" comes from a word of Xin Qiji, a poet of the Southern Song Dynasty 800 years ago: people find him thousands of Baidu. This sentence describes the poet's persistent pursuit of ideals.



Baidu has tens of thousands of R & D engineers, which is the best technical team in China and even the world. This team has mastered the world's most advanced search engine technology, making Baidu a Chinese high-tech enterprise that has mastered the world's cutting-edge science and core technology. It also makes China one of the only four countries in the world with search engine core technology outside the United States, Russia and South Korea.



At the beginning of its establishment, baidu took "making people obtain information and find what they want most equally and conveniently" as its mission; In May 2017, baidu updated its mission to "make the complex world simpler with technology". From the beginning of its establishment, the company adheres to the concept of "user first", constantly adheres to technological innovation, and is committed to providing users with "simple and reliable" Internet search products and services, including: functional search based on Web search; The post bar based community search, which aims at the vertical search required by various regions and industries, fully covers all the search needs of the Chinese online world. According to authoritative third-party data, in China, Baidu's total market share of PC and mobile terminals reached 73.5%, covering 97.5% of China's Internet users, with 600 million users and an average of 8 billion searches per day.