Chitchat The rise of Baidu and it's beating Google at its game

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For instance, the Baidu Translate app has a feature that can, in seconds, identify an object in a photo and name it in written and spoken English. The company’s mobile search app can understand what’s depicted in a photo snapped on your phone and then find images that are similar. Rather than simply matching colors and patterns, the app knows, for example, whether a photo shows a church or a soccer team. At conferences, Yu likes to demonstrate how that feature beats a comparable one from Google. One slide shows that Baidu found photos similar to one of a dog with a bow on its head. Google returned mostly photos of scantily clad women.

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