Baidu
Baiduspider
The crawler of Baidu, China's largest search engine. Google Search isn't available in mainland China, so Baidu is the main way people there search the web.
Worth knowing: Baidu also makes its own AI chatbot, Ernie.
The crawler of Baidu, China's largest search engine. Google Search isn't available in mainland China, so Baidu is the main way people there search the web.
Worth knowing: Baidu also makes its own AI chatbot, Ernie.
Why? To keep an up to date copy of the web, so they can show it in their results and sell advertising beside them. More and more, the same copy also feeds their AI answers.