Baidu

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 百度 (Bǎidù, literally “hundreds of times”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baɪˈduː/

Proper noun

Baidu

1. A Chinese multinational technology company specializing in Internet-related services and products.
   • 2006 September 17, David Barboza, “The Rise of Baidu (That’s Chinese for Google)”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     While Baidu continues to gain market share in China — and does so with a Web site that the Chinese government heavily censors and that gives priority to advertising rather than relevant search results — some analysts question whether Baidu can withstand competition from Google and Yahoo, which possess superior technology and global work forces.

2. (Internet) A search engine that popularized the company of the same name.
   • 2014, Edward C. Baig, Bob LeVitus, iPad mini For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 80:

     Most of us spend a lot of time using search engines. And the ones we summon most often are Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft Bing, at least in the United States. If you're in China, chances are you search using Baidu.

Translations

technology company

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 百度 (zh) (Bǎidù)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: Bách Độ, Baidu

Verb

Baidu (third-person singular simple present Baidus, present participle Baiduing, simple past and past participle Baidued)

1. (uncommon, transitive) To search for (something) on the Internet using the Baidu search engine.
   • 2011, Xiaoli Li, 期待ing: From Globalization to Glocalization‎^[2] (dissertation), Clemson University, page 105:

     To ground my assumption in facts, I “googled” and “baidued” the major Baidu events in 2008 and 2009.

   • 2012, Chen Yan, Jiang Yuhong, “Integration of ICTs into subject teaching in pre-service English teacher education”, in 2012 International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training (ITHET)‎^[3], IEEE, →DOI, →ISBN:

     This generally involves students reading the text for the main idea of the text, consulting print dictionary or online dictionary or Googling /Baiduing (one of the most popular searching engine in China) for difficult words, phrases, expression and sentence structure and figure out how they should be used properly if they can’t find satisfying answers from their print dictionaries.

   • 2014 July 11, fjrp2, “Car destroyed by ukrainian artillery.”, in alt.politics.international‎^[4] (Usenet):

     P.S, did some baiduing, found your cool dictator book

   • 2016, Shuwen Li, Ethos as Dwelling: The Construction of Corporate Ethos in an IPO‎^[5] (dissertation), University of Minnesota, page 61:

     From May 6, 2014 I read online English news by Googling news of “Alibaba IPO.” Simultaneously, I read online Chinese news by Baiduing news of “Alibaba IPO.”

   • 2019, Wenjing Liu, The Implications of Science and Technology for Chinese Women‎^[6] (dissertation), Michigan Technological University, →DOI, pages 108–109:

     When I baidued the keywords “剩女/leftover women” and “新华网/Xinhua.net,” a website sponsored by the Chinese government on June 11, 2019, at 11:30a.m., I found numerous reports on the leftover women on the Xinhua net.

Further reading

• Baidu on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Badiu, Budai, Bádiu, Dubai, Ubaid

Vietnamese

Alternative forms

• Bách Độ

Etymology

From Mandarin 百度 (Bǎidù).

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔɓaːj˧˧ ʔɗu˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔɓaːj˧˧ ʔɗʊw˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ʔɓaːj˧˧ ʔɗʊw˧˧]
• Phonetic spelling: bai đu

Proper noun

Baidu

1. (trademark) Baidu (a Chinese multinational technology company specializing in Internet-related services and products)
   • 20 January 2010, Vietnam News Agency, “Baidu kiện công ty của Mỹ vì bị tin tặc tấn công (Baidu sues American company because of hackers' attack)”, Vietnam

     Tuần trước, một phát ngôn viên của Baidu cũng đã giải thích hiện tượng gián đoạn khi truy cập vào trang này là do những "tác động bên ngoài từ hệ thống DNS (hệ thống tên miền) của Mỹ".

     Last week, a Baidu’s spokeperson also explained that the web page's accessibility had been interrupted by "external actions from the America Domain Nam System DNS"

2. (Internet) Baidu (a search engine that popularized the company of the same name)
   • 20 January 2010, Vietnam News Agency, “Baidu kiện công ty của Mỹ vì bị tin tặc tấn công (Baidu sues American company because of hackers' attack)”, Vietnam

     Register.com, Inc bị kiện do sự quản lý lơ là, để tin tặc tấn công trang Baidu trong tuần trước, gây gián đoạn hoạt động của trang này nhiều giờ liền.

     Register.com, Inc is sued due to their neglectful supervision, which let hackers attack the Baidu webpage last week, interrupting this page's operation for several hours.