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百度英文介绍About Baidu.com
我们知道百度是全球的中文搜索引擎，通过百度我们可以找到很多我们想要的相关信息。
下面我们通过百度公司的网站来学习一下百度公司的英文简介。
Many people have asked about the meaning of our name. "Baidu" was inspired by a poem written more than 800 years ago during the Song Dynasty. The poem compares the search for a retreating beauty amid chaotic glamour with the search for one"s dream while confronted by life"s many obstacles. "…hundreds and thousands of times, for her I searched in chaos, suddenly, I turned by chance, to where the lights were waning, and there she stood." Baidu, whose literal meaning is hundreds of times, represents persistent search for the ideal.
Baidu chose a poetic Chinese name because it wants the world to remember its heritage. As a native speaker of the Chinese language and a talented engineer, Baidu focuses on what it knows best - Chinese language search. Applying avant-garde technology to the world"s most ancient and complex language is as challenging as it is exciting. At least people here at Baidu think so. As having diligently disclosed in the Prospectus of our recent Initial Public Offering, we believe there are at least 38 ways of saying "I" in Chinese. It is important that we master all the ways of addressing oneself in Chinese because our users depend on us to address every one of their daily queries. And trust us, pin pointing queries in the Chinese language is an art rather than a science.
Our mission is to provide the best way for people to find information. To do this we listen carefully to our users" needs and wants. Have we collected all the Chinese web pages they want to see? Are the pages current and up to date? Are the search results closely related to their queries? Did we return those search results instantly? To improve user experience, we constantly make improvements to our products and services. For example, we introduced "phonetic" or "pin-yin" search which allows our users to type in Chinese keywords using English alphabets. This feature is designed to skip the switching from English inputting to Chinese inputting and for when the user is not sure of the written form of a keyword. Our users definitely notice the many little things that we do differently to ensure a simple and reliable search experience every time.
In addition to serving individual users, we also serve as a media platform for online marketing customers. We not only provide our customers easy access to one of the largest online audiences in China but also targeted groups with defined interests as indicated by queries. Unlike traditional online advertising services which charge by flat fee, our marketing products and services are performance based. Our Pay for Performance model has taken the market by storm because it is cost effective and measurable.
We know that a lot of interesting things are going on in the Internet space, but we don"t want to lose focus. China"s Internet search industry is only a newly discovered territory. We see vast untapped grounds in our home base and we believe there are still plenty of prizes to be claimed by the best players.
百度，2000年1月创立于北京中关村，是全球的中文搜索引擎。
2000年1月1日，公司创始人李彦宏、徐勇携120万美元风险投资，从美国硅谷回国，创建了百度公司。创立之初，百度就将自己的目标定位于打造中国人自己的中文搜索引擎，并愿为此目标不懈的努力奋斗。
2000年5月，百度首次为门户网站——硅谷动力提供搜索技术服务，之后迅速占领中国搜索引擎市场，成为最主要的搜索技术提供商。2001年8月，发布Baidu.com搜索引擎Beta版，从后台服务转向独立提供搜索服务，并且在中国首创了竞价排名商业模式，2001年10月22日正式发布Baidu搜索引擎。
2005年8月5日，百度在美国纳斯达克上市，成为2005年全球资本市场上最为引人注目的上市公司，百度由此进入一个崭新的发展阶段。
通过以上的介绍，我们对百度有了更多的了解，希望对大家有所帮助，在学习英语的路上更进一步。
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