【Sea and River Night Talk】The search engine Baidu is dead! Are you still searching on Baidu?
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【Search engine Baidu is dead: reduced to a tool for directing traffic to its own platform Baijiahao】This article that went viral on WeChat circles revealed a phenomenon: on the first page of Baidu’s search results, more than half of them lead to Baidu’s own product, Baijiahao. For example, “Peppa Pig”. Article 1 is iQiyi belonging to Baidu, Article 2 is Baijiahao, Article 3 is Sohu, Article 4 is Baidu Baike, and Article 5 is Baijiahao. Baidu today is no longer the Baidu of a year ago, let alone that of five or ten years ago. Go and give it a try – is your Baidu like this?
A friend was absolutely right: for all those internet products that are \"free and of high quality,\" when their business model can no longer cover the costs associated with maintaining that level of quality or pursuing further growth, a simple and crude solution is for the product to either give up being free or give up being of high quality. History has shown time and again that Chinese internet companies usually choose to give up on what is \"good\".
Currently, when searching for informational keywords on Baidu, all relevant content comes from Baijiahao, and there are also numerous links to Baijiahao in the search results. A few years ago, such content mainly came from portals like Sina, Sohu, and Tencent, as well as medium to small news websites with high rankings.
The larger it becomes, the more employees need to be hired; if there’s no profit, what will be used to support them?
First, use good and free methods to eliminate competitors, and then do as you please with the rest: lol
I still miss the era when Google was a competitor.
Under the competition on the Internet, things develop at such a fast pace that the ability to think positively cannot keep up with this speed, which inevitably leads to various problems. Over time, the resilience of a positive mindset diminishes, until it eventually collapses; one should understand the difficulties they face.
Now, a lot of information no longer comes from Baidu
Many good resources can still be found through Baidu searches