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China has shown that they are very adept at copying American high-tech innovation. * Facebook: WeChat/Weibo * Google: Baidu * Apple: already being made in Ch
by kcanini 9y ago
China has shown that they are very adept at copying American high-tech innovation.
* Facebook: WeChat/Weibo
* Google: Baidu
* Apple: already being made in China, clones everywhere
* Amazon: Alibaba
- zht 9y agore: Facebook On the contrary, WeChat is leaps and bounds ahead of Facebook Messenger (which is a more direct comparison). If you've watched Facebook Messenger over time, it's actually Facebook Messenger that's aspiring to be the WeChat of the west.
- prodmerc 9y agoI was intrigued by Tencent's offer of 1TB of storage, installed the app and it immediately started uploading all of my phone's content to their cloud. Haha, great fucking service, just amazing.
- mazerackham 9y agoActually Facebook has shamelessly copy-catted WeChat continuously over the last 2 years
- thablackbull 9y agoWe prefer to use the term, seeking inspiration as opposed to copying, over here =P
- FooBarWidget 9y agoSome Chinese products are better, but PLEASE remove Baidu from that list. Baidu has been ridiculous for the past few years: I can't find anything on Baidu, pretty much the entire first page is full of irrelevant ads; all my Chinese friends are complaining about that too. I use Baidu Maps every time I visit China. Heavily disappointed, it comes nowhere near Google Maps's quality.
- ximeng 9y agoBaidu often gives me better results than Google for Chinese search queries, particularly when looking for pages not blocked in mainland to share with people there.
- FooBarWidget 9y agoI (as well as my Chinese friends) were looking for Chinese queries. Couldn't find useful stuff. I ended up using Bing. :(
- KaoruAoiShiho 9y agoGoogle copied baidu not the other way around. And how is Alibaba a copy of Amazon... It's nothing like Amazon in terms of how it actually works and make money. An Alibaba in the US doesn't even exist.
- kcanini 9y ago> Google copied baidu not the other way around How so?
- justabystander 9y agoThey didn't. Google predates Baidu by two years. It's possible they could be talking about a specific technology, but not likely. Google had a Chinese subsidiary at one point in time, but stopped bothering as the government got in their way and assisted Baidu at every turn. Like with most situations where a foreign company competes with a Chinese one. And that's before you get into the fact that China really doesn't want any foreign info-based companies operating in its borders, given their heavy propaganda machine. They'll tolerate it only until they can clone it and expel it.
- KaoruAoiShiho 9y agoRead my comment above, inform yourself.
- KaoruAoiShiho 9y agoThe founder of Baidu Robin Li published his RankDex paper in 1997, a year before Larry Page's PageRank in 1998. And Larry was clearly aware of RankDex when he founded Google. Here's what Wikipedia says in its PageRank entry: >A small search engine called "RankDex" from IDD Information Services designed by Robin Li was, since 1996, already exploring a similar strategy for site-scoring and page ranking.[16] The technology in RankDex would be patented by 1999[17] and used later when Li founded Baidu in China.[18][19] Li's work would be referenced by some of Larry Page's U.S. patents for his Google search methods.[20] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank#cite_ref-20 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank#cite_ref-20 I don't think Google is a Baidu clone but in the cavalier way that people accuse other people of copying the timeline only supports Larry copying Robin Li.