Tuesday, August 09, 2005

Chinese Searching Engine Is Becoming An Appetizing Cake In World Stock Market

Chinese searching engine is becoming an appetizing cake in world stock market. Last week, the biggest Chinese searching engine in the world ( Baidu. Com Inc. ) had succeeded in landing onto Nasdaq which is one of extremely influential stock market in America. In the first day, its price of stock was increased up to 122.54 USD per share but the emitting price is just 35 USD. Due to the incredible soar of price, there are nearly 200 staffs who work for Baidu becoming millionaires.

As we know, Google has a hegemonic status in the web searching engine market, but why Baidu can become a new appetizing cake which is pursued crazily by shareholder? In my mind, Chinese searching engines became a new highlight because they have their own cultural advantage comparing to western searching engines. Western searching engines are rather powerful when users search some contents which are related to western culture. However, they are getting clumsy when we search some contents which are closely related to exotic culture such as Asian culture. On the other hand, Chinese searching engines have a huge advantage over the western searching engines in searching those contents which is related to Chinese culture.

I did an interesting experiment to support my viewpoint. When I searched “Hayley Dee Westenra” in both Google (www. google. co. nz ) and Baidu, I got 3620 entries in Google but only 95 in Baidu. However, when I searched “ the great wall” in them, I got 31,000,000 entries from Google but more than 50,000,000 from Baidu. Therefore, I think Google and Baidu have different searching advantages in different areas.

If you are interested in Chinese culture, "www. baidu.com" is a good searching engine for you.

1 Comments:

At 9:02 pm, Blogger Andrew Cozens said...

i was reading somewhere that the chinese government didnt want the search engine to come up with any results on democracy or anything that might look bad.. not sure how they can prevent freedom of information on the internet though.

 

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