The development history of Baidu?

Since its inception, Baidu has taken "letting people get information equally and conveniently and find what they want most" as its mission. Since its establishment, the company has been adhering to the concept of "customer first", constantly insisting on technological innovation, and is committed to providing users with "simple and reliable" Internet search products and services.

These include: functional search based on network search; Community search based on post bar, aiming at vertical search required by various regions and industries; And portal channels, IM, etc. , covering all the search needs of the Chinese online world.

According to authoritative data from third parties, in China, the total market share of Baidu's PC and mobile terminals reached 73.5%, covering 97.5% of netizens in China, with 600 million users and responding to 6 billion searches every day.

Faced with the continuous enrichment of users' search products, Baidu also innovatively launched search-based marketing promotion services, becoming the most popular Internet marketing promotion platform for enterprises. At present, hundreds of thousands of domestic enterprises have used Baidu's search promotion service, which has continuously improved their own brands and operational efficiency.

In order to promote the development of millions of small and medium-sized websites in China, Baidu has established the world's largest network alliance by combining all high-quality websites with the advantages of super-large traffic platform, which has greatly enhanced the value and coverage of search promotion and brand marketing of various enterprises. At the same time, with the help of the alliance family, every website has the greatest opportunity for survival and development.

With the advent of the mobile Internet era, Baidu has taken the lead in realizing the mobile transformation in the industry and ushered in a broader development opportunity. By opening 3600 lines connecting traditional industries, Baidu has extended from "connecting people and information" to "connecting people and services", allowing netizens to obtain services directly through Baidu mobile products.

At present, Baidu is promoting the deep integration of finance, medical care, education, automobile, life service and other industries with the Internet through continuous business model and product and technology innovation, and plays an active role in promoting economic innovation and transforming economic development mode.

As a high-tech company with technology as its belief, Baidu is based on technological innovation, focusing on the core technological breakthrough of the Internet and personnel training, and is at the global leading level in the technical fields such as search, artificial intelligence, cloud computing and big data. Baidu believes that the development of the Internet is welcoming the third act-artificial intelligence, which is also an important technical strategic direction of Baidu.

Baidu has established a world-class research institution-Baidu Research Institute, which attracts top technical talents at home and abroad and devotes itself to the research and exploration of related cutting-edge technologies such as artificial intelligence, with a view to fundamentally improving Baidu's information service level.

At present, the research results of Baidu artificial intelligence have been fully applied to Baidu products, benefiting hundreds of millions of netizens; At the same time, Baidu will also open leading technologies such as voice, image and machine translation with high difficulty and large investment to the industry, lower the threshold of mass entrepreneurship and innovation, and further release the vitality of entrepreneurial innovation.

As a well-known enterprise in China, Baidu has been adhering to the responsibility concept of "bridging the information gap and enjoying the knowledge society" and insisting on fulfilling the social responsibility of corporate citizens.

Since its establishment, Baidu has taken advantage of its own advantages to actively participate in public welfare undertakings, invested huge resources to create special search products for the blind, children and the elderly, solved the internet problem of special groups, and greatly bridged the social information gap.

In addition, Baidu has been in the leading position in accelerating the informatization process in China, purifying the network environment, educating search engines and improving the employment rate of college students. 20 1 1 At the beginning of the year, Baidu also donated and established the Baidu Foundation to manage and practice public welfare undertakings in a more systematic and standardized manner around topics such as knowledge education, environmental protection and disaster relief.

Today, Baidu has become one of the most valuable brands in China. Among the 50 smartest companies in the world selected by the 20 16 MIT Science and Technology Review, Baidu ranked second, surpassing other technology companies.

A series of honorary titles, such as "the most respected enterprise in Asia", "the most innovative enterprise in the world" and "China Internet Power Star", all show Baidu's achievements in the past few years.

Baidu has never been satisfied with its achievements, and has never stopped the pace of development. Since its listing on Nasdaq in 2005, its market value has reached $80 billion by 20 15.

Today, Baidu has developed into an international enterprise with branches in Japan, Brazil, Egypt, the Middle East, Vietnam, Thailand and Indonesia. In the future, Baidu will cover more than 50% countries in the world and provide services to the whole world.

Over the years, Li Yanhong, chairman and CEO of Baidu, has led Baidu people to form a "simple and reliable" core culture, which is deeply rooted in Baidu. This is a vibrant, realistic and frank company. It takes science and technology as its mission to change life, promote the progress of human civilization and promote the economic development of China, and is moving towards a more ambitious goal.

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Baidu memorabilia:

1, 2000

Li Yanhong founded Baidu and dreamed of sailing.

Baidu.com is an independent search portal, and its launch has laid a solid foundation for future development.

2. Year 200 1

Launch an independent search engine to directly serve users and lay a solid foundation for future development.

3.2002

With the implementation of "Lightning Project", the Chinese search experience has surpassed Google.

4.2003

Baidu surpassed Google and became the preferred search engine for China netizens.

Baidu publishes image search and news search.

Baidu Post Bar went online and became the largest Chinese community in the world.

5.2004

It has become the preferred search engine for hundreds of millions of netizens in China, occupying a leading position in the Chinese search market.

There are 270 million mobile phone users in China, Baidu WAP search has been launched, and Baidu can also be used on mobile phones.

6.2005

Open the homepage for a week to help tsunami victims.

Launched "Baidu knows".

The successful listing on Nasdaq in the United States created the American myth of Chinese concept stocks, and its share price rose by 354% on the first day.

7.2006

Encyclopedia went online and became the largest Chinese encyclopedia in the world.

8.2007

The Internet Guide's 2007 China Internet Survey report shows that the user arrival rate of Baidu reached 80.79% in 2006.

Baidu homepage changed from "Baidu search" to "Baidu once".

9.2008

Baidu was selected as "Top Ten World-class Brands in China" by FT, and it is the only Internet company in China.

Baidu's entry into the United Nations Global Compact has filled the gap in this field for Internet companies in China.

Shanghai R&D Center was established and the innovative Aladdin model was launched.

10, 2009

Introduce the technical concept of box computing? I officially moved into baidu edifice's new office and R&D building, and started a brand-new dream.

1 1, 20 10 year

Li Keqiang, then Vice Premier of CPC The Politburo Standing Committee (PSC) and the State Council, visited Baidu.

On the occasion of Baidu's 10th anniversary, Li Yanhong released three visions for the next decade.

Baidu HIVE BOX successfully switched, and the performance of Q 1 was greatly improved.

Baidu input method is officially launched, and the accumulation of search technology in 10 years is the strong backing.

Baidu became the first Internet country innovation pilot enterprise.

Create iqiyi.

12,2011year

Baidu's web search market share reached 83.6%, a record high.

Where did the $306 million strategic investment go?

Baidu knows that the cooperative open platform is online.

Baidu's leading cloud computing has won the highest support from the National Development and Reform Commission.

13, 20 12

Establish LBS business department and transform to mobile business.

Li Keqiang, then Vice Premier of CPC The Politburo Standing Committee (PSC) and the State Council, came to Baidu for investigation.

14, 20 13

Buy glutinous rice.

Establish IDL (Deep Learning Institute).

19 1 000000 USD to acquire 91wireless.

15, 20 14

Baidu glutinous rice integration completed, layout O2O.

Release Baidu wallet and get through the closed loop of mobile ecology.

Baidu released a big data engine, opening up big data capabilities for the first time.

Baidu established the American R&D Center and appointed Andrew Ng as the chief scientist.

Baidu released Portuguese-language search, and technological innovation was recognized by high-level.

Baidu map market continues to be the first, and the market share gap is widening.

Baidu Q3 mobile revenue accounted for more than 36%, and mobile traffic surpassed PC for the first time.

Baidu Cloud Computing (Yangquan) Center officially opened.

20 14 mobile application distribution market, Baidu ranked first in the first three quarters.

Baidu invests in Uber to open a new model of Sino-US Internet cooperation.

16, 20 15

On the 0/5th anniversary of Baidu/KLOC-,Li Yanhong delivered a speech: Always believe in the power of technology.

Li Yanhong suggested the establishment of "China Brain" project.

Baidu glutinous rice released the "member+"strategy, and invested 20 billion yuan in three years to subvert the industrial structure.

Baidu launched the "aircraft carrier plan" to open high-quality assets to investors.

Let the search be "secretarial" and make a secret appearance at Baidu World Congress.

Baidu became the search engine of Windows 10 in China market.

Baidu announced a share swap agreement with Ctrip.

Baidu and CITIC jointly launched baixin bank to create a new model of "Internet plus finance".

Baidu and Allianz Gaoyou launched Internet insurance companies, and the layout of "Internet plus finance" reached a new level.

Baidu Map leads the industry, ranking first with a market share of over 70%.

Wuzhen Internet Conference: National leaders praise unmanned vehicles.

Together with Guo Jin Securities, Baidu won the "three axes" of Internet finance.

17, 20 16

Baidu Machine Translation won the National Science and Technology Progress Award and became the most inclusive scientific research project.

Baidu released smart car strategy.

Baidu announced the reorganization of its business structure and the establishment of "Baidu Search Company".

Baidu Map announced its internationalization strategy, covering 150 countries by the end of the year.

Baidu has been selected as one of the top 50 innovative companies in the world, with more than 1500 artificial intelligence patents.

Baidu brain AI platform was officially released.

Baidu established Platinum Internet Financial Assets Trading Center.

Baidu established an independent venture capital company. The newly established Baidu Venture Capital will focus on artificial intelligence, next-generation technological innovation projects such as AR and VR, and focus on early projects. The first phase of the fund will reach $200 million.

Baidu launched the medical brain and officially applied artificial intelligence technology to the medical and health industry.

Baidu established Baidu Capital with an initial fund of 20 billion yuan.

18, 20 17

Baidu signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Hebei provincial government and xiong'an new area Management Committee, which made Xiong 'an a new benchmark for AI-City smart city.

Baidu has reached strategic cooperation with Huawei and Xiaomi respectively. Under the AI thinking of "soft and hard combination", Baidu will continue to develop more partners.

The list of the first batch of national new-generation artificial intelligence open innovation platforms was announced, and Baidu took the lead in building a national artificial intelligence open innovation platform for autonomous driving.

20 17 Baidu world congress was held, and Baidu announced that it would mass-produce unmanned vehicles on 20 18. At the same time, raven H, Baidu's first benchmark artificial intelligence hardware product, came out.

Baidu released Baidu 10.0, a mobile phone integrating search and information flow, leading a new interactive experience in the new mobile era.

Baidu Silicon Valley's second R&D center was officially put into operation, and Baidu Seattle's R&D center was also established at the same time, which marked the initial completion of Baidu's core technology circle in North America.

Baidu held the world's first AI developer conference, and released the overall strategy, technology and solutions of the artificial intelligence open platform for the first time. At the meeting, Qilu said that Baidu would "All in AI".

Li Yanhong drove a driverless car to the Fifth Ring Road and received the first ticket in the history of driverless cars. Four months later, Beijing's new automatic driving regulations were introduced.

The daily active users of Baidu's information flow business, which was established less than 9 months ago, exceeded 1 100 million. Driven by the dual engines of search and information flow, information flow has quickly become another super application in China.

Baidu and Agricultural Bank of China reached a strategic cooperation and set up a joint financial technology laboratory. Through the joint innovation of AI Fintech, the two sides will push the banking industry into a new era of smart finance.

Baidu released a new mission: using technology to make the complex world easier.

In the witness of People's Republic of China (PRC) Li Keqiang, Premier of the State Council of the People's Republic of China and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Baidu signed a strategic cooperation agreement with the German Bosch Group, and the two sides will carry out in-depth cooperation in the fields of autonomous driving, intelligent transportation and intelligent car networking.

Baidu launched the Apollo autopilot platform to provide an open, complete and secure software platform for the automotive industry and its partners. This is the first system-level opening of autonomous driving technology in the world.

Baidu has published more than 2,000 China patent applications and hundreds of foreign patent applications in the field of artificial intelligence. Patent layout helps Baidu seize the commanding heights of technology.

Approved by the National Development and Reform Commission and led by Baidu, China National Engineering Laboratory of Deep Learning Technology and Application was officially unveiled.

MIT Science and Technology Review published the top ten breakthrough technologies in 20 17. Baidu boarded the list with its leading face recognition technology and won all the awards of artificial intelligence.

Qilu, former global executive vice president of Microsoft, joined Baidu as the president and chief operating officer of Baidu Group.

Baidu's artificial intelligence robot participated in Super Brain on a small scale, and never lost two wins and one draw against three human players.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Baidu (Baidu Company)