Chinese search engine Baidu announces 95% surge in profit
posted Tue, 2011-07-26 17:06 by
Chinese search engine giant, Baidu, has reported a 95% surge in profits over the last quarter.
The company said it made 1.63bn yuan (£155m) in the second quarter, compared to its profit of 837m yuan in the same period last year.
Baidu’s success rides on the back of the fact that it’s the number one search engine in China, beating Google with its mammoth 75% market share.
tags: Baidu, Foreign Language Internet, foreign search engines, Google, internet statistics
Google brings in the machines for Wikipedia translations
posted Tue, 2010-07-27 10:41 by
Google and Wikipedia recently announced that they are aiming to translate more than 16 million words of Wikipedia content into ‘smaller languages’.
While Wikipedia already contains a wealth of information in English, German and French, languages such as Arabic, Hindi, Tamil, Swahili, Telugu and Gujarati are under-represented.
Google is aiming to rectify this - and further its aim of internationalising knowledge - by translating Wikipedia’s most read pages into these languages.
tags: Crowdsource, Crowdsourcing, Google, PEMT, Wikipedia
