Baidu offers many services, including a Chinese language search engine for websites, audio files, and images. Baidu offers 57 search and community services including Baidu Baike, an online collaboratively-built encyclopedia, and a searchable keyword-based discussion forum.  Baidu was established in 2000 by co-founders, Robin Li and Eric Xu

Baidu provides an index of over 740 million web pages, 80 million images, and 10 million multimedia files.  Baidu offers multimedia content including MP3 music and movies, and is the first in China to offer Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) and personal digital assistant (PDA) based mobile search.