The new Orange and Baidu browser offers a highly customisable but simple interface for customers in AMEA, enabling them to access web-based apps and internet services unique to Baidu and Orange, as well as services like Wikipedia, Facebook or Twitter, amongst others.

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China's search engine Baidu, another investor favorite, gets more hits than Twitter and Wikipedia, according to web information company Alexa.

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Meanwhile, Baidu has faced little criticism for its strict censorship of search results or for restricting the entries to Baidupedia, a Wikipedia-like site, to politically harmless subjects.

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