Baidu
proper noun
- Chinese search engine
verb
- to search Baidu, Chinese search engine
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /baɪˈduː/
name
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 百度 (Bǎidù, literally “hundreds of times”).
- A mainland China search engine owned by the company of the same name.
“Most of us spend a lot of time using search engines. And the ones we summon most often are Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft Bing, at least in the United States. If you're in China, chances are you search using Baidu.”
verb
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 百度 (Bǎidù, literally “hundreds of times”).
- To search for (something) on the Internet using the Baidu search engine.
“To ground my assumption in facts, I “googled” and “baidued” the major Baidu events in 2008 and 2009.”
“This generally involves students reading the text for the main idea of the text, consulting print dictionary or online dictionary or Googling /Baiduing (one of the most popular searching engine in China) for difficult words, phrases, expression and sentence structure and figure out how they should be used properly if they can’t find satisfying answers from their print dictionaries.”