Baidu.com is the main website page for Baidu Inc. This company operates a search engine specifically in the Chinese and Japanese languages. Just like Search Engines such as Google, Yahoo and Bing, Baidu.com offers a wide variety of search services. Included in the Baidu Search Engine are standard search features such as for web pages, audio files, videos and images. There are also a range of specialist search services, which are detailed further down this page.

Baidu.com is owned by Baidu Inc, (Nasdaq:BIDU). This page has an emphasis on Baidu.com rather than Baidu Inc.

According to statistics from Traffic Estimate, Baidu.com has approximately eight hundred and eleven million visitors per month http://www.trafficestimate.com/baidu.com The Google Page Rank for Baidu.com is 8/10, this is a rating that is very difficult to obtain and is reserved for premium sites obtaining premium traffic volumes.

The following is a list of the functional areas within Baidu.com:

• Baidu Dictionary – An online dictionary service
• Baidu Education – Search through Education based websites
• Baidu Encyclopedia – The largest online encyclopedia in China
• Baidu Entertainment – Enables search for entertainment and gossip information
• Baidu Finance – All the financial news, in conjunction with Hexun
• Baidu Games – Search for a variety of online games
• Baidu Government Search – Information on Chinese government websites
• Baidu Image Search – An image library similar to services as provided on Google and Yahoo
• Baidu Knows – A questions and answers service generated by users. This is similar to services like Mahalo Answers and Yahoo Answers
• Baidu Legal Search – A search that contains legal databases and web information
• Baidu Maphttp://map.baidu.com/ - A map of the world
• Baidu MP3 – Searches to MP3 content in MP3, WMA and SWF formats
• Baidu News – Links to Chinese local and national news, in addition censored international news stories are provided
• Baidu Patent search – A tool that allows to search for patents online
• Baidu Postcode search – Search for various properties by postcode
• Baidu Search Ranking – Listings sorted into categories – similar to the Open Directory Project
• Baidu Space – The Social Networking site of Baidu
• Baidu Videos Search – A video library similar to services as provided on Google and Yahoo
• Baidu Web Directory – Listings of websites that have been sorted into categories
• Baidu Youa – An eCommerce/Online Shopping solution where companies supply products through Baidu
• Japanese Search Enginehttp://www.baidu.jp/ - The main link to the Japanese Search Engine from Baidu

Baidu.com currently has a duopoly in China in conjunction with Google. Baidu has 63% of the Chinese Search Engine Market and Google is its closest competitor has 33%.

On January 13, 2010 Baidu Inc shares climbed 13.7% when Google announced they were considering leaving the Chinese Search Engine market due to Chinese Government Censorship. Baidu Inc shares were first listed on NASDAQ in August, 2005 at $27 and were recently valued at $439. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/14/technology/companies/14baidu.html

The other main competitors in the Chinese Search Engine Market account for 4% of the overall traffic. These competitors include EachNet, Gougou, Microsoft Bing, PaiPai , Sina, Sohu Sogou, Soso, Taobao, TOM Online, Wikipedia, Yahoo! China and Youdao

Alexa Statistics The following are the Alexa.com statistics for Baidu.com:

1. Alexa Traffic Rank – 8th most popular site in the world http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/baidu.com#
2. Alexa China Traffic Rank – #1, is the most popular site in China
3. Over 58,600 different sites link to Baidu.com
4. The site Baidu.com has been live since October 11, 1999
5. The most popular search engine traffic to Baidu.com was for the term baidu, which generated 2.09% of all traffic to the website
6. Only China has more than 2% of the Visitors by country to Baidu.com. China has 96% of all the visitors to this website.
7. Websites supplying Baidu.com with 2%+ of traffic are:
8. QQ.com, 3.90%
9. sina.com.cn, 3.19%
10. google.com.hk, 2.26%
11. soso.com, 2.26%
12. hao123.com, 2.09%