Baidu Baike: A Baidu?s Wikipedia
Baidu Baike: A Baidu?s Wikipedia
Baidu (Nasdaq: BIDU), the biggest rival of Google in China, is planning a new service called Baidu Baike (????, Baike is the pinyin for encyclopedia in Chinese), which is a wikipedia-like encyclopedia service.
The website of Baidu Baike has been available serveral weeks ago, but the service isn?t open. Today, more details of the service is disclosed from its faq(via Pose Show).
Baidu Baike allows registered users to create or edit any items in this encyclopedia, but all the new items and modification are obliged to be approved by moderators before they are published publicly. As wikipedia, users can edit any existing items and compare the previous version history.
The editors(users) of Baidu Baike are allowed to set tag for each item, but only limited to five tags per item. And the content of each item is limited to less than 20 thousand words.
Wikipedia is still blocked in China mainland. Baidu Baike is the latest company to China?s collaborative encyclopedia market without that powerful competitor. But I still hope Wikipedia can be accessed in China some day soon.
[via China Web 2.0 Review]
posted by Jackson at 1:22 PM
1 Comments:
> but all the new items and modification are obliged to be approved by moderators before they are published publicly.
so it is not a real "free encyclopedia", not as wikipedia. it can not be a real neutral encyclopedia as well.
> As wikipedia, users can edit any existing items and compare the previous version history.
therefore, its real users are those baidu editors, because they decide the final viewpoints, not the netizens participated in.
> The editors(users) of Baidu Baike are allowed to set tag for each item, but only limited to five tags per item. And the content of each item is limited to less than 20 thousand words.
these facts indicate that they haven't designed the application architecture well, as well as the detailed data structures.
> Wikipedia is still blocked in China mainland. Baidu Baike is the latest company to China's collaborative encyclopedia market without that powerful competitor. But I still hope Wikipedia can be accessed in China some day soon.
that's why baidu can survive in china. that's why baidu should help on blocking google and wikipedia in china. because it should be one of the biggest winners in the bloody blocking games.
baidu has no creativity, it merely know how to copy from others, but do the same things worse. that is baidu.
please visit here for more: http://bbao.blogspot.com/2006/06/why-i-do-not-use-baidu-never.html
Post a Comment
<< Home