Baidu blocks Google, Bing from scraping content amid demand for AI data
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Wikipedia-style service Baidu Baike recently barred the search engine crawlers of Google and Bing from indexing its online content.
  • HootinNHollerinEnglish
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    2 months ago2 months ago

    Not like it matters here but Baidu was a rip off of google in the first place

    • JaddedFauceetEnglish
      30·
      2 months ago

      User generated content would still be valuable

    • jaekEnglish
      41·
      2 months ago

      You’ve actually got it backwards. The ranking algorithm (rankdex) developed by one of the engineers that founded Baidu was published in 1996, two years before pagerank. Some of Google’s early patents actually cite the rankdex algo.

      Not like it matters here

      Cope