Baidu has added an “AI Traffic Analysis” (AI流量分析) section to Baidu Search Resource Platform, its webmaster tools. According to an announcement in the platform’s message center dated September 16, 2026, the report will show how often a site’s content is ...
Much of the discussion around AI search tends to focus on Western platforms. Google’s AI Overviews, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, and tools like Perplexity dominate most industry conversations. But this perspective misses one of the most important developments in AI-driven discovery: what ...
Baidu is preparing to list its AI chip unit Kunlunxin in an initial public offering expected in the first half of 2026. The move could give investors a clearer view of the value of Baidu’s growing artificial intelligence hardware business. ...
Baidu is embedding Ernie Bot into its main app, aiming to use its search dominance to expand in artificial intelligence. At his first internal address of 2026, Baidu CEO Robin Li stressed that in the AI era, applications matter most. ...
Baidu has added the artificial intelligence tool OpenClaw to its main search app, giving direct access to around 700 million monthly active users. The move comes just days before China’s Lunar New Year holiday, as major tech companies compete to ...
Before understanding how AI changes discovery on Baidu, it is important to understand how discovery has traditionally worked inside the Baidu ecosystem. Unlike Western search engines, Baidu has never been a simple list-of-links experience. Even before large language models entered ...
Search has always been framed as a ranking problem. A query goes in, a list comes out, and visibility is measured by position. That mental model breaks down quickly in AI-led search systems. In China and South Korea, two of ...
Search is fragmenting fast. Across Asia, Eastern Europe, and privacy-first markets, discovery is no longer driven by blue links or a single dominant engine. It is shaped by local AI systems, regional portals, government-aligned platforms, community knowledge bases, and retrieval ...
Baidu is overhauling its core search experience with the help of ERNIE, its generative AI model family. The company is shifting from traditional, link-based search results to AI-generated, multimodal responses that aim to be more intuitive, visual and conversational. By ...
China’s Baidu just announced the most radical search redesign in a decade. On July 2nd, at Baidu’s AI Open Day, the company unveiled what it calls the biggest overhaul of its search platform in ten years—replacing traditional search bars with ...