Baidu blocks Google, Bing from scraping content amid demand for data used on AI projects
Baidu blocks Google, Bing from scraping content amid demand for data used on AI projects
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Wikipedia-style service Baidu Baike recently barred the search engine crawlers of Google and Bing from indexing its online content.
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Good
Not like it matters here but Baidu was a rip off of google in the first place
User generated content would still be valuable
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