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who knew it wont be that hard to crush your competition when you have the backing of your authoritarian government.
by edwinj99 8y ago
who knew it wont be that hard to crush your competition when you have the backing of your authoritarian government.
- tehlike 8y agoIt is funny coming from them though. Well, bad news for them, united states is a leader in tech for a reason. I dont believe china can replicate that success, they will only clone. It is fine to trash talk, we know who wins in such situation.
- Apfel 8y agoAs I've said in another thread, anyone who's used Baidu for any length of time should laugh out loud at the suggestion that it's anywhere close to Google in quality.
- shanghaiaway 8y agoBaidu search results are much, much better than Googles.
- spacehunt 8y agoReally? For example, I tried looking up a 生煎包 place nearby for dinner just now: https://m.baidu.com/from=844b/s?word=%E9%8A%85%E9%91%BC%E7%81%A3+%E7%94%9F%E7%85%8E%E5%8C%85 https://m.baidu.com/from=844b/s?word=%E9%8A%85%E9%91%BC%E7%8... The first pages results are all irrelevant. Compare to Google's: https://www.google.com/search?q=%E9%8A%85%E9%91%BC%E7%81%A3+%E7%94%9F%E7%85%8E%E5%8C%85 https://www.google.com/search?q=%E9%8A%85%E9%91%BC%E7%81%A3+... The very first result is actually where I would want to go, and there's a map right there to direct me to the place.
- yorwba 8y agoI think the problem is that Baidu doesn't recognize 銅鑼灣 as a location. Maybe they just didn't bother to get good map data for Hong Kong. Trying https://www.baidu.com/s?wd=%E5%8C%97%E4%BA%AC%E4%B8%9C%E7%9B%B4%E9%97%A8%20%E7%94%9F%E7%85%8E%E5%8C%85 https://www.baidu.com/s?wd=%E5%8C%97%E4%BA%AC%E4%B8%9C%E7%9B... instead, I do get a result with a map, although it's not the first and the first result is a different place.
- spacehunt 8y agoBaidu actually does recognize 銅鑼灣 as a location and even suggests other places in Hong Kong (旺角、南丫岛 etc, incidentally in Simplified Chinese instead.) The results just weren't good. Actually I didn't get a map even with your link. Perhaps it's because I'm not in mainland China? It shows up like this: https://imgur.com/vCa07JM https://imgur.com/vCa07JM My search's Google results look like this: https://imgur.com/di147uj https://imgur.com/di147uj
- tehlike 8y agoGoogle is not just search, that is the kicker.
- tehlike 8y agoYup, but what do we expect him to say anyway, that he'd lose to google? Investors would dump it right away. Similar to how xi is talking when it comes to trade wars, baidu behaves the same.
- _wmd 8y agoare we talking about Google or Baidu here?
- fastball 8y agoGoogle has the backing of the US Government?
- rapsey 8y agoAnyone thinking they don't are incredibly naive. It won't help them in the Chinese market obviously.
- c3534l 8y agoLast I checked it was still legal to use Baidu in America, which can't be said for Google in China. Please tell me how you think they're comparable, because I guess I am one of those "incredibly naive" people.
- chvid 8y agoI betcha if Baidu were to get any significant traffic from the US it would be a different story.
- jtrip 8y agoCan you do a little better than a 'betcha'? A few pertinent examples of America interfering on behalf of mega-corps would do. I know they are there out there, but I can't recall them right now.
- chvid 8y agoI think the "ban" of Huawei gives some hints on what might happen. Of course it would look different since the "customers" here are private citizens rather than corporations.