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Also known as Bǎidù, Baidu, Inc., baidu.com, BIDU, BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. (Beijing), Baidu Group

Baidu, Inc. ( ; ) is a Chinese multinational technology company specializing in Internet services and artificial intelligence. It holds a dominant position in China's search engine market (via Baidu Search), and provides a wide variety of other internet services such as Baidu App (Baidu's flagship app for search and newsfeed), Baidu Baike (an online user created Wikipedia-like encyclopedia), iQIYI (a video streaming service), and Baidu Tieba (a forum platform similar to Reddit).

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Baidu, Inc. is a company established in 2000, headquartered in Beijing, China. The organization operates as a computer programming and data processing service provider. It is listed on the Nasdaq and OTC exchanges under the tickers BIDU and BAIDF. Baidu is described as the world’s largest Chinese search engine, aiming to help users access information through a database of over one hundred billion Chinese web pages.

The company has 31,000 employees and reported a total revenue of 134,598,000,000. Its operating income stands at 2,410,000,000, with a net profit of 5,196,853,000. Baidu holds an Alexa rank of 4 and a Similarweb ranking of 6. The entity is active in the jurisdiction of KY and has 16,200 social media followers.

Synthesized by Vinony from 42 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Firecrawl, GLEIF, SEC EDGAR, ROR, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Key facts

Company.name
Baidu, Inc.
Company.logo
Baidu.svg
Company.logo_upright
1.1
Company.image
Baidu Technology Park at ZPark Phase II (20220502113650).jpg
Company.image_upright
1.1
Company.image_caption
Corporate headquarters
Company.native_name
百度
Company.native_name_lang
zh
Company.type
Public
Company.location_city
Beijing
Company.location_country
China
Company.area_served
Worldwide
Company.revenue
 billion (2024)
Company.operating_income
 billion (2024)
Company.net_income
 billion (2024)
Company.equity
 billion (2024)
Company.num_employees
39,800 (2023)
Company.owner
Robin Li (18% equity; 59% voting)

via Wikipedia infobox

Company

BIDU, BAIDF
Industry
Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc.
Exchange
Nasdaq, OTC
State of incorporation
E9
Entity type
other
Jurisdiction
KY
Headquarters
北京, CN

via SEC EDGAR · GLEIF

Research organization · ROR

Type
Company, Funder
Founded
2000
Location
Beijing, China
Also known as
Baidu Inc
Status
Active

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Official website

百度一下

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baidu.com

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
search engine
Part of
Nasdaq-100
Country
China
Founded by
Robin Li
Headquarters
Beijing
Industry
Internet
Employees
31000
Revenue
18238000000
Stock exchange
Nasdaq
Platform
iOS
Official website
www.百度网站.中国
Image
Baidu Technology Park at ZPark Phase II (20220502113650).jpg
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topic's main category
Category:Baidu
director / manager
Robin Li
Commons category
Baidu
operating income
2307000000
search formatter URL
www.baidu.com/s?wd=$1&ie=UTF-8
net profit
3255000000
owner of
Baidu Baike
Alexa rank
3
product or material produced
search engine
topic has template
Template:Baidu
Similarweb ranking
6
distributed by
Q368215
inception
2000-01-00
social media followers
16200
Sources (14)

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Encyclopedic overview

26 sections
Contents
  • History
  • Early development
  • 2005: Public Listing on NASDAQ
  • 2017: Launch of Autonomous Driving Business
  • 2021: Hong Kong Secondary Listing
  • Robotaxi
  • Domain name redirection attack
  • Acquisitions
  • 2024: Artificial Intelligence Launch
  • Name
  • Travel
  • Advertisements
  • Competition
  • Research and patents
  • Finances
  • Censorship
  • Controversies
  • Death of Wei Zexi
  • Commercialization of Tieba
  • DO Global subsidiary ad-fraud in downloaded apps
  • Block in India
  • 2024 head of communications controversy
  • See also
  • References
  • Further reading
  • External links

Baidu, Inc. ( ; ) is a Chinese multinational technology company specializing in Internet services and artificial intelligence. It holds a dominant position in China's search engine market (via Baidu Search), and provides a wide variety of other internet services such as Baidu App (Baidu's flagship app for search and newsfeed), Baidu Baike (an online user created Wikipedia-like encyclopedia), iQIYI (a video streaming service), and Baidu Tieba (a forum platform similar to Reddit).

Besides its core internet search business, Baidu has also diversified into other areas. Including autonomous driving (Baidu Apollo), smart consumer electronics (Xiaodu). and a full-service AI stack, including software, chips, cloud infrastructure, foundation models, and applications.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Baidu” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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