| Baidu, Inc. is a Chinese multinational technology company which specialize in Internet-related services and product and computerized intelligence, located in Beijing's Haidian District. It is one of the biggest computerized intelligence and Internet companies on the planet. The holding company of the group is included in the Cayman Islands. Baidu was incorporated in January 2000 by Robin Li and Eric Xu. The Baidu search engine is currently the fourth biggest site in the Alexa Internet rankings. Baidu has starting points in RankDex, a previous search engine created by Robin Li in 1996, before he established Baidu in 2000.
In 1994, Robin (Li Yanhong, ???) joined IDD Information Services, a New Jersey division of Dow Jones and Company, where he created programming for the online release of The Wall Street Journal. He additionally worked on growing better calculations for search engines and remained at IDD Information Services from May 1994 to June 1997.
Baidu offers different services, including a Chinese search engine, just as a mapping service called Baidu Maps. Baidu offers around 57 search and local area services, for example, Baidu Baike (an online reference book), Baidu Wangpan (a cloud storage service), and Baidu Tieba (a keyword-based discussion forum).
In 1996, while at IDD, Li built up the RankDex webpage scoring calculation for search engines results page ranking and got a US patent for the technology Launched in 1996, RankDex was the first search engine that used hyperlinks to check the nature of sites it was indexing. Li alluded to his search instrument as "link analysis," which included ranking the popularity of a site based on the number of different sites had connected to it. It originated before the comparative PageRank calculation used by Google two years after in 1998; Google founder Larry Page referred to Li's work as a reference in some of his U.S. licenses for PageRank. Li later used his RankDex technology for the Baidu search engine.n
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