BAIDU VS GOOGLE Xiao Shi COMP 2903 OCT

BAIDU VS GOOGLE Xiao Shi COMP 2903 OCT 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: Google 1. not very accurate 1. accurate 2. does not have good search in other languages 2. can search anything by any languages 3. limited output 3. more outputs

Conclusion The range of Google search is larger than that of 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/baiducominc/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/

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