On June 65438+1 October12000, the founders of the company, Li Yanhong and Xu Yong, returned to China from Silicon Valley in the United States with $65438+20,000 in venture capital, and founded Baidu Company. Baidu set the goal of building China people's own Chinese search engine at the beginning of its establishment, and is willing to make unremitting efforts for this goal.
In May 2000, Baidu first provided search technology services for the portal-Silicon Valley Power, and then quickly occupied the search engine market in China, becoming the most important search technology provider. In August, 20001,the beta version of Baidu.com search engine was released, and it changed from background service to independent search service, which was the first business model of bidding ranking in China. 200 1 year1October 22nd, Baidu search engine was officially released.
On August 5, 2005, Baidu went public on Nasdaq, becoming the most striking listed company in the global capital market in 2005, and Baidu entered a brand-new development stage.
User service program
In the past six years, Baidu has been tirelessly pursuing technological innovation, and relying on the profound wisdom of China, it is committed to providing "simple and reliable" Internet search services for netizens.
Baidu responds to more than hundreds of millions of search requests from 138 countries every day. Users can instantly find relevant search results through Baidu's homepage. These results come from Baidu's database of more than 654.38 billion Chinese web pages, and the number of these web pages is increasing by tens of millions every day.
At the same time, users can search for information without visiting Baidu's homepage. More than 30,000 members of the search alliance combine Baidu search into their own websites in various ways, allowing users to search Baidu at any time when surfing the Internet. Baidu also provides WAP and PDA search services. Even if there is no PC around, users can search Baidu through wireless platforms such as mobile phones and handheld computers.
Baidu has been committed to listening, exploring and meeting the needs of netizens in China, adhering to the concept of "user experience first" and providing diversified search services such as MP3, documents, maps, love, movies and television. , took the lead in building a search community represented by Post Bar and Zhihu, and integrated the wisdom of countless netizens into the search. "Baidu once" has become a new verb for people to search.
customer service
Baidu also provides software, competitive ranking and related advertising services for various enterprises. Every month, more than 5,000 enterprises obtain business opportunities through Baidu, 50,000 enterprises use Baidu's bidding ranking service, and more than 300 large enterprises use Baidu's search advertising service.
Baidu will not be satisfied with this, and technological innovation will never end. Baidu will, as always, focus on Internet search engines, and make people's lives better with advanced search technology and quality services through unremitting efforts.