Baidu invested 1 billion RMB in product R & D market share hitting a new high

According to public data, Baidu, a search engine company, has invested more than 1/3 of the company's annual business revenue in the R & D and product of search engines every year. In 2008, it was about 1 billion yuan. As one of the returns of such a large R & D investment, Baidu accounted for 2008 of the Chinese search market in 73.2%, hitting a new high.

"In 2008, the Chinese search engine market continued to show a stronger trend. Baidu continued to grow with a high share and assumed an absolute advantage in the market ." Cao Junbo, chief analyst of iResearch, said that according to the latest statistics of IUI iUserTracker, Baidu handled a total of 2008 Web search requests in 109.6 billion, accounting for 73.2% of the Chinese search market, this figure, compared with 2007 of Baidu's share in 72.6%, increased by 0.6 age points, hitting a new high in history.

"We are glad to see that Baidu's market share has grown again. This is the best reward for the efforts and efforts of all Baidu employees over the past year. We sincerely thank the Internet users for choosing and supporting Baidu ." "In the future, Baidu will continue to invest in R & D and innovate technologies and products to provide better search experiences and services for Internet users," said Li Yanhong, Chairman and CEO of Baidu ."

In fact, in addition to huge R & D investment, Baidu has also carefully laid out its top-notch talent reserves. Since its establishment, Baidu has attached great importance to its talent investment. Baidu has successively attracted hundreds of overseas students to return to China. In the recruitment of recent graduates, Baidu has also provided more competitive salaries than multinational companies. At present, Baidu has more than 2000 top search engine products and technical engineers that are competitive around the world, and has become China's first Internet company with postdoctoral workstations. In addition, Baidu has established a series of search behavior research centers and search technology R & D centers with top Chinese universities including Peking University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University, A two-way channel for technological and talent flow is established between enterprises and universities.

In 2008, Baidu launched several cutting-edge scientific and technological innovations, such as Crystal storage, to shake the industry. In December 2008, Baidu Shanghai R & D center was unveiled and the next-generation search engine "Aladdin platform plan" was released for the first time, allowing search to begin to cover the "dark network" information that existing technologies on the Internet cannot capture, to better meet the increasingly complex information acquisition needs of Internet users.

In this regard, industry experts commented that Baidu's continuous R & D investment, talent accumulation, and painstaking research and experience on user needs have made it the first choice for most netizens to obtain information. Baidu's continued market share leads not only prove that Baidu is the leading Chinese search engine, in addition to providing Chinese users with convenient information acquisition methods, excellent search experience, and a high ROI marketing platform, it also marks a powerful search engine with independent intellectual property rights in China, it will also play a more important leading role in leading global Internet innovation and application trends. (Dong Hui)