BEIJING, June 5, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Baidu, Inc. (NASDAQ:
BIDU) announced today that the daily active users of the Baidu app,
which offers both search and personalized news feed, reached 150
million.
"This is an important milestone for the Baidu app, which
reinforces our strategy to improve the user experience with
powerful AI and deep user insight to deliver personalized feeds
with a wide array of topics of interest," said Dou Shen, Baidu VP and general manager of Baidu
app. "We are delighted that the Baidu app has grown in parallel
with the launch of ads-free Jiandan Search."
"My team is honored to have our CEO Robin Li's direct involvement in recent months,
which has sped up decision making and iteration of product
upgrades, as well as added growth momentum. Since Q4 2017, Robin
has been providing our team with guidance and leadership and has
helped us reprioritize Baidu's news feed goals not set on user
growth nor time spent, but on providing interesting and valuable
information to our users," added Shen.
"Jiandan Search embodies our latest design concepts and
integrates Baidu's cutting-edge AI technologies in natural language
processing, image recognition and video," said Wu Haifeng, Baidu VP
in charge of Baidu search user products. "Jiandan Search displays
different results or layouts to different audiences, based on user
profile, such as kids or fans of a particular celebrity. Our goal
is to offer our users with more search options."
Baidu app serves as the main channel to access Baidu's twin
engines of search and news feed and is the container that offers
the most optimized Baidu experience. Jiandan Search is a recent
experiment to offer an alternative search app with no
ads.
About Baidu
Baidu, Inc. is the leading Chinese language Internet search
provider. Baidu aims to make a complicated world simpler for users
and enterprises through technology. Baidu's ADSs trade on the
NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol "BIDU." Currently, ten
ADSs represent one Class A ordinary share.
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of the Chinese language Internet search market and the number of
Internet and broadband users in China; Chinese governmental policies relating
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Contacts
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Tel: +86-10-5992-4958
Email: ir@baidu.com
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