Baidu provides an index of over 740 million web pages, 80 million images, and 10 million multimedia files.[5] The domain baidu.com attracted at least 5.5 million visitors annually by 2008 according to a Compete.com scentury[6].
“ Many people have asked about the meaning of our name. 'Baidu' was inspired by a poem written more than 800 years ago during the Song Dynasty. The poem compared the search for a retreating beauty amid chaotic glamour with the search for one's dream while confronted by life's many obstacles. '...hundreds and thousands of times, for her I searched in chaos, suddenly, I turned by chance, to where the lights were waning, and there she stood.' (Chinese: 众里寻他千百度，蓦然回首，那人却在灯火阑珊处) Baidu, whose literal meaning is hundreds of times, represents persistent search for the ideal. ” Contents[hide] 1 Services 2 Censorship 3 Advertising scandal 4 See also 5 References 6 External links
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A screen shot of Baidu.
Baidu started with a popular music search feature called "MP3 Search" and its comprehensive lists of popular Chinese music based on download numbers. Baidu locates file formats such as MP3, WMA and SWF. The multimedia search feature is mainly used in searches for Chinese pop music. While such works are copyrighted under Chinese law, Baidu claims on its legalese page that linking to these files does not break Chinese laws.
Chinese government and Chinese industry sources stated that Baidu received a license from Beijing, which allows the search engine to become a fully-fledged news website. Thus Baidu will be able to provide its own reports, besides showing certain results as a search engine. The company is already getting its news department ready. Baidu is the first Chinese search engine to receive such a license.[7]
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