Baidu joins World Wide Web Consortium

September 14, 2011, the World Wide Web Consortium CEO Dr. Jeff Jaffe visited Baidu headquarters, the two sides signed a formal agreement on Baidu to join the consortium. As China's first Internet company to be invited to join the international organization, Baidu will actively participate in the development of relevant international standards and promote its application in many fields, such as open platform and wireless internet.

The World Wide Web Consortium, which was founded in 1994 by Tim Berners-lee, the father of the World Wide Web, is the only authoritative international organization for the establishment of network standards. The current Internet-wide use of HTML, XHTML, CSS, XML and other standards are developed by the universal. Members of the global consortium include Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, Apple, Nokia and other internationally renowned technology companies, Facebook also recently joined. At present, the domestic members of the consortium include Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hong Kong government Science and Technology editor-in-chief office and other institutions and research institutes, Baidu is the only large Internet enterprises in China.

Dr Jaffe said: "China is the world's largest internet market, under the impetus of Baidu-led Internet enterprises, the birth of countless important innovative technologies and products." Baidu joined the World Wide Web, whether it is for the establishment of the core standards and improve the standard, or in the Chinese-related multi-language support and text layout and other fields, will play a significant positive impact, so as to better meet the needs of the entire Internet. ”

As the world's largest Chinese search engine, Baidu's technical strength has been recognized by the Internet industry. The founder and father of the Web, Tim Berners-lee, has repeatedly raised the prospect of "hyper-chain analysis and its application in search engine anti-cheating", launched at the World Wide Web conference in 98 by Baidu founder and CEO Robin Li, and said he was "impressed" by the seminar. In Li's drive, Baidu has always put technology innovation as the source of the company's development power. As early as 2006, Baidu has become China's first postdoctoral workstation of internet companies, Li personally as a mentor. At the same time, Baidu also with the Peking University, Tsinghua, Japan and many other well-known universities at home and abroad launched a comprehensive and in-depth joint academic research and development work, set up a joint laboratory, joint research projects, jointly undertake the country's major research topics, the birth of a number of world-class research and development results.

"China has the world's largest internet community, driven by such huge user needs, innovation and change are emerging." After joining the World Wide Web, we hope to bring these innovations and thoughts to the international community, representing Chinese internet companies, webmasters, developers and nearly 500 million ordinary netizens, to participate in the development of international standards. "Baidu Commercial product marketing department, business Operations Product Development Department executive director Zheng said.

China has long been the fastest-growing country in the world with the most Internet users and the Internet industry. As China's Internet market capitalisation and the top three of global internet market capitalisation, Baidu in the Chinese search engine and related fields have an absolute technology-leading position, from 2009 box to 2010 the application of the open platform, and then released this year, Baidu's new home page, Baidu led time and again the world class innovation, Also led the entire Chinese Internet industry development and progress.

"Baidu's debut as China's first big corporate member of the Internet is a landmark for China's internet industry and will help China's internet industry gain more say in Internet technology and standards." "China is making an effort to apply for the fourth headquarters of the consortium," said Huaijin Peng, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, president of Beijing Aerospace University and director of the China Office of the Consortium. With the development of Internet technology and industry in China, we welcome more Chinese Internet enterprises to better integrate into the Internet industry and play an active role through various platforms such as standard organizations. ”

China Office of the World Wide Web, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics computer Dean Professor Mazhanfu, said that Baidu has grown into a large Internet enterprises, its international influence quickly rise, Baidu joined the global Consortium, for the standard construction of the consortium has an important role, will promote the standards in China to promote and implement.