Headquartered in Beijing’s Haidian District, Baidu (baidu.com) is a Chinese multinational technology company. Baidu was founded in 2000 by Robin Li and Eric Xu, as a search engine platform specializing in internet-related services, artificial intelligence (AI), and diverse products. Baidu is one of the leading AI companies in the world, offering a full and diversified portfolio of AI services such as AI chips, deep learning framework, Core AI capabilities as well as an open AI platform to promote its application and use. Baidu.com stands as the fourth largest search engine in the world, coming in behind Google, Bing, and Yahoo. Baidu became the first Chinese company to be included in the NASDAQ 100 index in 2005 and as of late 2021, Baidu held a market cap of USD 70 billion.

As of February 2023, baidu.com has 4.6 billion monthly views, acccording to Similar Web. The Wayback Machine provides June 6, 2000 as the approximate date of conception for baidu.com. Traffic has been regurlary increasing for the site, with the most traffic picking up between 2016 and 2019.

Is baidu.com Safe?

I analyzed baidu.com for malware and malicious content to check if it was legit or a scam. Here are the results:

I checked baidu.com on Sucuri, and it returned as a medium security risk. Results: Sucuri scan for the site baidu.com.

Baidu.com Sucuri results

Sucuri says baidu.com is a medium security risk because of TLS recommendations (no HTTP to HTTPS redirect).

Security hardening flaws:

  • Missing Strict-Transport-Security security header. Affected pages:
    https://www.baidu.com/404javascript.js
    https://www.baidu.com/404testpage4525d2fdc

I then ran a parasite scan with Unmask Parasites on baidu.com, and it is clean. Results: Unmask Parasites scan for the site baidu.com.

I also checked baidu.com on VirusTotal, and it is clean. Results: VirusTotal scan for the site baidu.com.

Baidu.com VirusTotal results

In conclusion, Sucuri says baidu.com is a medium security risk because of TLS recommendations (no HTTP to HTTPS redirect). No vendors associated with Sucuri or VirusTotal have blacklisted baidu.com or deemed it as malicious. OVERALL GRADE: Relatively Safe.

Links and Profiles

Website: baidu.com

References

1. SimilarWeb – baidu.com

2. Wayback Machine – baidu.com