Yesterday on lunch table one of my Chinese colleagues
mentioned about her travel to China and how Baidu was better than Google
(Google is banned there anyways).
I got curious and looked up… I didn't know that Baidu
founder Robin Li is the pioneer of search algorithm that used page ranking even
before Larry Page. Around 1997 Page and Brin even met Li and
exchanged ideas.
Apparently Li was working in D E Shaw in 1997 and wanted the
company do something with his search engine but they didn't know what to make
out of it. Frustrated with this Li returned to China and founded Baidu in the
year 2000. Rest is history !!
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