BAIDU VS GOOGLEXiao ShiCOMP 2903OCT 28, 2010

SUMMARY

Introduction of Baidu Contrast between Baidu and Google Difference between Baidu and

Google Conclusion

Background

Baidu is the leading search engine in China

It was co-founded in 1999 by Robin Li Baidu created a shopping mall of

Web offerings

Main page of Baidu

Contrast 1

Search images of “acadia university” on both search engines

Search on Google

Search on Baidu

Contrast 2

Search maps on both search engines

Search on Google

Search on Baidu

Differences

Baidu: 1. not very accurate 2. does not have

good search in other languages

3. limited output

Google 1. accurate 2. can search

anything by any languages

3. more outputs

Conclusion

The range of Google search is larger than that of Baidu.

Baidu has good command of Chinese

search and it does not do well in English search.

Google is better than Baidu in a large degree.

Sources

The New York Time. 2010. “Baidu Inc.” from: http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/baiducom-inc/index.html

Baidu. URL: http://www.baidu.com Wikipedia. “Google”. From

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google CNN. 2010. “Baidu: China’s Google can’t be beat”.

From: http://money.cnn.com/2010/10/22/technology/thebuzz/index.htm

Baidu Images: URL: http://image.baidu.com/ Baidu Maps: URL: http://map.baidu.com/ Google Images: URL:

http://www.google.ca/imghp?hl=en&tab=wi Google Maps: URL: http://maps.google.ca/

Thank you for your listening

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