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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 | + | :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 | + | :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 " | + | :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) | ||
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