Baidu is the company that owns the Baidu search engine and is listed on Nasdaq under the ticker BIDU.
Baidu was founded in 2000 by Robin Li and Eric Xu and became China’s leading internet search company. Its services have expanded into online advertising, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, autonomous driving, and other technologies.
The company’s search engine is often compared with Google, but Baidu operates primarily in the Chinese-language internet market. Its name comes from a line in a classical Chinese poem, and the company is headquartered in Beijing.
Baidu is distinct from Alibaba Group, which is best known for e-commerce and cloud services, and Tencent, whose major businesses include WeChat and online games. Baidu has been among the largest publicly traded Chinese technology companies by market value, although its ranking changes as share prices move.