Google vs. Baidu
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ID: 1013
Upper Intermediate
Ali vs. Foreman... Skywalker vs. Vader... Donahue vs. Oprah... There was always a winner and a loser. This may not be any rumble in the jungle, but the results are just as hard to bet on... and the odds, well, just odd. Listen to this podcast, where Google takes on Baidu. May the best Chinese search engine win.
Jenny, John
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| SIMPLIFIED | PINYIN | ENGLISH | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 百度 | Bǎidù | Baidu | |
| 竞价 | jìngjià | price competition | |
| 排名 | páimíng | to rank | |
| 浏览量 | liúlǎnliàng | traffic |
你用Google搜索啊？为什么不用百度？
nǐ yòng Google sōusuǒ a？wèishénme bù yòng Bǎidù？
You use Google to search? Why don't you use Baidu?
百度是竞价排名。排在前面的网站不是因为浏览量高，得到网友的认可，而是因为它们舍得花钱。
Bǎidù shì jìngjià páimíng。pái zài qiánmian de wǎngzhàn bù shì yīnwèi liúlǎnliàng gāo，dédào wǎngyǒu de rènkě，érshì yīnwèi tāmen shěde huāqián。
Baidu arranges sites by how much the owners have paid. The ones listed at the top are not there because they have a lot of traffic and people approve of them. It's because they are willing to pay a lot of money.
用多了就有窍门了，多看几页就行了呗。我觉得中文搜索还是百度强。内容是Google的好几倍呢。而且好多新网页第一时间就能搜到，Google就不行。
yòng duō le jiù yǒu qiàomén le，duō kàn jǐ yè jiù xíng le bei。wǒ juéde Zhōngwén sōusuǒ háishì Bǎidù qiáng。nèiróng shì Google de hǎojǐ bèi ne。érqiě hǎo duō xīn wǎngyè dì yī shíjiān jiù néng sōudào，Google jiù bù xíng。
Use it for a while and you'll discover some tricks-of-the-trade; just look at a few more pages and you'll be fine. I think that for searching in Chinese, Baidu is still your best bet. It has several times as much content as Google. Plus, a lot of new web pages are immediately available there. Google can't do that.
你别上Google全球网站，上Google.cn不就行了。中文搜索结果也是很全的。最重要的是内容相关度比较高。不过，要听音乐的话，我还是用百度。
nǐ bié shàng Google quánqiú wǎngzhàn，shàng Google diǎn cn bù jiù xíng le。Zhōngwén sōusuǒ jiéguǒ yě shì hěn quán de。zuì zhòngyào de shì nèiróng xiāngguāndù bǐjiào gāo。bùguò，yào tīng yīnyuè dehuà，wǒ háishì yòng Bǎidù。
Don't look at Google's website for the entire world. Check out Google.cn, that's good enough. Its Chinese search results are also very complete. Most important, the stuff you find with Google is very relevant. But if you want to listen to music, you should still use Baidu.
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