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Baidu references:
 
Baidu references:
  
:Baidu is a large Chinese Internet services company that employs thousands, whose shares are publicly traded on world stock exchanges. It's the predominant Internet search provider of China, and is sometimes called the "Google of China".  It offers parallels for the Chinese market of many of the services that Google provides and offers its own encyclopedic wiki with a restricted edit policy to serve as a replacement for Wikipedia.  
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:Baidu is a large Chinese Internet services company that employs thousands, whose shares are publicly traded on world stock exchanges. It's the predominant Internet search provider of China, and is sometimes called the "Google of China".  It offers parallels for the Chinese market of many of the services that Google provides.  
 
   
 
   
 
:Wikipedia reports that Baidu's search engine handled 56% of Chinese internet search queries in Q4 2010. and that in October 2012, Baidu ranked 5th overall in the Alexa Internet rankings.
 
:Wikipedia reports that Baidu's search engine handled 56% of Chinese internet search queries in Q4 2010. and that in October 2012, Baidu ranked 5th overall in the Alexa Internet rankings.
  
:Given that explanation for the Baidu references in #1193 is still solicited for explainxkcd, Baidu apparently is not well known yet among savvy XKCD readers.
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:Given that explanation for the Baidu references in #1193 is sill solicited for explainxkcd, Baidu apparently is not well known yet among savvy XKCD patrons.
  
:Baidu Search results reputedly follow the censorship dictates of the Chinese authorities, causing it to return censored responses to searches for politically sensitive terms like "Tianamen Square massacre" or "Falun Gong" when executed by web browsers that are connected via Chinese ISPs.  
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:Baidu Search results reputedly follow the censorship dictates of the Chinese authorities, causing it to return censored responses to searches for politically sensitive terms like "Tiannamen Square massacre" or "Falun Gong" when executed by web browsers that are connected via Chinese ISPs.  
  
 
:When you execute such searches via Baidu in the US, the top links returned for these topics do seem to reflect Chinese government sensibilities although the uncensored English language Wikipedia articles for these topics are listed high in the query results.  
 
:When you execute such searches via Baidu in the US, the top links returned for these topics do seem to reflect Chinese government sensibilities although the uncensored English language Wikipedia articles for these topics are listed high in the query results.  
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;Today's incomplete explanation (November 30, 2013)
 
;Today's incomplete explanation (November 30, 2013)
 
I have done some layout changes and I did add the final transcript. Please check if it is correct to all countries.--[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 22:22, 30 November 2013 (UTC)
 
I have done some layout changes and I did add the final transcript. Please check if it is correct to all countries.--[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 22:22, 30 November 2013 (UTC)
 
The comic isn't on xkcd anymore. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.215.43|108.162.215.43]] 05:06, 7 February 2014 (UTC)
 
:There was a glitch on some ''dynamic'' servers for a few days; it seems to be solved right now. --[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 20:51, 7 February 2014 (UTC)
 
 
This comic does not appear to be working on xkcd at this time - tried both Firefox and Chrome to view it, and saw some error in Firefox about a cross-site scripting violation. Anyone else seeing the same issue? [[User:Ianrbibtitlht|Ianrbibtitlht]] ([[User talk:Ianrbibtitlht|talk]]) 12:30, 8 June 2019 (UTC)
 
:Yes, I'm seeing the same errors.  The comic worked on http, but not on https. --[[User:WhiteDragon|WhiteDragon]] ([[User talk:WhiteDragon|talk]]) 11:43, 23 July 2019 (UTC)
 
::The glitch is still there as of November 2019 (I'm seeing a blank box instead, but it's similar). It doesn't work on Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Internet Explorer, or Opera. Should this be mentioned in the comic explanation?--[[User:Account|Account]] ([[User talk:Account|talk]]) 21:49, 13 November 2019 (UTC)
 
 
== Decomission ==
 
 
The comic is completely blank as of June 2021. Additionally, the other link used to view the hash competition’s leaderboard also cannot be accessed.
 
:Still true in November 2021. The transcript is still visible in the source for the page, though. Also, please sign comments by typing <nowiki>~~~~</nowiki>. [[User:Nitpicking|Nitpicking]] ([[User talk:Nitpicking|talk]]) 18:10, 7 November 2021 (UTC)
 
:Comic appears to have returned as of Jan 2024! - Biran [[Special:Contributions/172.70.90.177|172.70.90.177]] 10:38, 25 January 2024 (UTC)
 

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