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As 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 qua

by Apfel 8y ago

As 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 ago
Baidu search results are much, much better than Googles.
- spacehunt 8y ago
  Really? 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 ago
    I 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 ago
      Baidu 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 ago
  Google is not just search, that is the kicker.
tehlike 8y ago
Yup, 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.

by Apfel 8y ago

As 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 ago

Baidu search results are much, much better than Googles.

spacehunt 8y ago
Really? 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 ago
  I 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 ago
    Baidu 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 ago
Google is not just search, that is the kicker.

tehlike 8y ago

Yup, 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.