In July 2012, it partnered with Baidu to incorporate Baidu search in its mobile platform.
And the price of gold, or the politics in Washington, have no impact on whether or not Shanghai locals are going to buy smartphones and go to Baidu to search, and Sina and Tencent sites to maintain relationships with friends.
China's search giant Baidu is trying to fend off rival search engine Qihoo 360, launched less than a fortnight ago.
The company's chief financial officer Alex Xu told the BBC that Qihoo had noticed Baidu interfering with search results a few days later.
Mr Perret said France Telecom had partnered with Baidu because the search firm had helped mobile networks in in its home market of China cope with a similar switch from basic mobiles to low-end smartphones.
It said that when people used its new engine to search for a Baidu-related service, its rival re-directed them to its own search page.
Robin Li has produced stellar growth at Chinese search engine Baidu in the past year.
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China-based Internet search giant Baidu this afternoon reported mixed results for the third quarter.
Moreover, Sohu is also outgunned by companies that provide specific services, most notably Chinese search leader Baidu.
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Chinese search giant Baidu and France Telecom are collaborating on a browser for low-end smartphones sold in Africa.
Instead of automatically connecting to Google for browsing, the devices will link to the popular Chinese search engine Baidu.
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But that's nothing compared with the performance of search engine Baidu.com (375, BIDU) , known as the Chinese Google.
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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.
News portal Sina.com.ch reported recently that Apple was considering embedding China search engine Baidu (BIDU) in its operating system next month.
The China-based search engine Baidu this afternoon reported Q4 results that were a smidgen ahead of the Street consensus estimates.
The labels reached a similar agreement with search engine Baidu in 2011.
The latter trains computer scientists for the Chinese military and is reported to have ties to Baidu, the dominant search engine in China.
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So a similar offering in China to be launched by premier search engine Baidu should do just as well, maybe even better, correct?
Shares of the Chinese search engine Baidu are trading higher this morning after the company late Wednesday posted better-than-expected Q1 financial results.
As I reported earlier, Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg has begun his trip in China, with a stop by top Chinese search engine Baidu in Beijing.
Zuckerberg has visited China to vacation and to meet with high-tech entrepreneurs, including a 2010 lunch with Robin Li, CEO of leading Chinese search engine Baidu.
In addition to Ma, several others have become billionaires, including Robin Li of search giant Baidu and Ma Huateng of Tencent, an entertainment and Web portal company.
Going forward, we see users spending more and more time on online video and we will integrate iQiyi's content more seamlessly into Baidu's overall search and mobile services.
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Other high-profile members include Lenovo and search portal Baidu.
Take Baidu, the dominant search engine in China.
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China, unlike North Korea, has a vast network of "netizens" but they operate on home grown sites like Weibo, the Twitter equivalent microblogging site, and Baidu, a local search engine that is more popular than Google.
Other Chinese spin-off brands of popular American websites have faced success from going public in America, such as Youtube-esque Youku (NYSE: YOKU), shopping site Dangdang (NYSE: DANG), and digital search engine Baidu (NASDAQ: BIDU).
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