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) Attached Thumbnails 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
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
@jskls Did you know what crashed my system last year that I lost all my data..? (remember?).... BAIDU antivirus!! Grrrrrr......
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?
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?
Should I have to say 'OK'....? Aren't we friends? Don't you know I ll help? (who helped you dig the dragon bones eh?! ) :-D
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