The United Nations Foundation and the Vodaphone Foundation provided financial help to develop an open-source data collection tool.

VOA: special.2010.05.03

We came up with this idea that we open up the interface so that people who owns the data, who owns the content, can submit it to us and we will integrate into our search results.

于是我们有了一个想法，开放一个接口,让拥有数据，以及容量的人，能够将其提交给我们,然后整合到搜索结果中。

斯坦福公开课 - 百度CEO李彦宏演讲：全球最大搜索引擎的发展课程节选

We came up with this idea that we open up the interface so that people who owns the data, who owns the content, can submit it to us and we will integrate into our search results.

于是我们有了一个想法，开放一个接口,让拥有数据，以及容量的人，能够将其提交给我们,然后整合到搜索结果中。

斯坦福公开课 - 百度CEO李彦宏演讲：全球最大搜索引擎的发展课程节选