Let's Fire Up Those Neurons!

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  1. Viswamitra

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    Puzzle # 5327

    Country - China

    Question - What am I talking about?

    Puzzle-solving effort needed (1) Very easy -
    (2) (easy) - (3) reasonably hard - (4) hard - (5) very hard :
    (2) (easy)

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    The answer to the puzzle above is

    "Baidu" - a search engine

    Image 1 - Headquartered in Beijing's Haidian District

    Image 6 - Baidu's headquarters in Beijing

    Image 2 - Baidu-Baike is an online collaboratively-built encyclopedia

    Image 3 - Founder Robin Li

    Image 4 - Eric Xu Yong - Co-founder of Baidu

    Image 5 -
    The name Baidu is a quote from the last line of Xin Qiji's classical poem "Green Jade Table in The Lantern Festival" saying: "Having searched thousands of times in the crowd, suddenly turning back, She is there in the dimmest candlelight."

    Viswa



     
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    Neurites,

    This puzzle is very similar to PepperPot's puzzle about Pepper. Time and again I have indicated that Google can help to indicate that it is Chinese equivalent of Google. I have purposefully decided to create a puzzle with the history of 15 years (the Company incorporated in 2000) when everyone is looking for ancient Chinese history.

    Baidu's services include, Map, Cloud Storage Service, Query-based searchable community to exchange views, News, Query-based searchable community to share knowledge, MP3 search, Image search, video search, largest encyclopedia, Space, a social networking service, Village Digital Encyclopedia, Search Ranking, Web Directory, Government information search, postal code search, Educational website search, Legal search, Love, a query-based searchable community to interact with loved ones, Patent search engine, Games, financial information, Statistics search, Entertainment, Web analytics platform, Dictionary, online shopping/eCommerce, Desktop search, downloadable software, wireless services for mobile phones, anti-virus software, internet TV, language voice assistant, Discovery Network Asia-Pacific, Index, Bookmarks, Browser, Smartphone operating system, Online Library to share documents, platform to support users, Travel-booking service, Digital Assistant, Webmaster tools, etc.

    $78 billion is its market capitalization in the United States, a company that attracted so much attention in the Wall Street.

    Viswa
     
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    @jskls Did you know what crashed my system last year that I lost all my data..? (remember?).... BAIDU antivirus!! Grrrrrr......
     
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    Just some thoughts..... How did you guys find its Baidu? Since I didn't know those 3_ppl, neither that building front, I had only two clues to help. I read the entire wiki of the H district & randomly stumbled on B headquarter info & then it clicked! So would like to know........ How?
     
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    yes I remember your hard drive crashing but didn't know it was BAIDU. So you were preparing yourself for solving China puzzles from that time?
     
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    He he... OCD... SpTD... Now I got ESP too!!! :rotfl
     
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    Should I have to say 'OK'....? Aren't we friends? Don't you know I ll help? :p (who helped you dig the dragon bones eh?! ) :-D
     
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    My words "Focus on Google" didn't help?
     
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    Viswa Sir, the image for 'shes there in the dimmest candlelight ' was a nice touch.
    Since I saw google too many times I started with Google + China, Landed on Tsinghua Science park, found Haidian district and so on. When I landed on Baidus wiki page Kaniths clue confirmed the ans
     
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    Kaniths couldn't solve your puzzle within coffee break. Any verbal clues?
     

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