You're assuming that Baidu's faults are somehow because the people running Baidu are simply not as skilled as Google, and I doubt this. If Google was running in

You're assuming that Baidu's faults are somehow because the people running Baidu are simply not as skilled as Google, and I doubt this. If Google was running in China, I doubt it would be that much better than Baidu. The censorship obviously degrades the quality of search results, and China does other things which make running web services intrinsically difficult, especially if you're trying to keep to Western principles in any way.