Baidu Launches Voice Search Beta
Baidu, the leading search engine in China has launched the voice search, a service that restricted to Beijing residents. If you’re staying in Beijing, you can use your phone to call 11616690 and seek the voice search help from the Baidu customer service personnel. Only those who use the phone services from these providers CNC, China Telecom, China Mobile and China Unicom are allowed to access to the services. This voice search currently is in beta status, from 9am to 9pm and free of charge, however an user need to pay the phone cost as stipulated by those providers stated in the above.
Baidu is aimed at making their voice search system more like a typical question and answer session, with as much interaction with end users as possible. Though this type of process is trivial and involve a lot of manual work, but I learned a valuable lesson from Baidu from this offering. No matter how big you are, you still need to keep on striving in the market, and do the things that other players do not want to do.
October 8th, 2007 at 9:48 pm
[...] Baidu is an extraordinary China search engine company by any measure. It dominates the search market not only in China, but also the Chinese speaking community. Most recently, Baidu stock price also reached a new high, rocketed to nearly $330, more than tenfold since its $27-per-share IPO. I’m not sure this is due to the buoyant mood of the investors or the stability of Baidu’s market share in China, i.e. the rising Internet market have much influenced on its stock price. Most important, it is a growth stock that did not disappoint its loyal supporters. [...]
October 12th, 2007 at 9:31 am
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