Re:Baidu found China’s “ghost cities” but is keeping their l...
by ethanbond on Thursday November 05, 2015 @10:23AM
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It seems unfair to jump from "it's a shoddy product" and "they introduced a security hole" to "they're not technically competent."
A lot of American and European companies have done, and consistently do, the same things. It seems like there's some hypercriticism due to underlying suspicions of intentionality – however well-founded those suspicions may be.
Re:Baidu found China’s “ghost cities” but is keeping their l...
by happywolf on Thursday November 05, 2015 @10:33AM
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No doubt there are good people in Baidu. This happens everywhere, including the now defuncting Nokia, however those people are not put in good use.
To turn the question around: what makes you think they are technical competent? Can you provide 2 examples instead?
Re:Baidu found China’s “ghost cities” but is keeping their l...
by Gigablah on Thursday November 05, 2015 @10:02PM
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1. I searched for "cars" on Baidu. I got search results with cars.
2. I searched for "cats" on Baidu. I got... the musical, a pop group... okay, maybe you're right.
Re:Baidu found China’s “ghost cities” but is keeping their l...
by anunderachiever on Thursday November 05, 2015 @10:16AM
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Maybe that is intended:
"China's replacement for Windows is an XP ripoff"
http://www.theverge.com/2015/9/25/9396769/china-NeoKylin-ope...
Let me elaborate
Andrew Ng no doubt is a famous researcher, but I am talking about a common user's experience, and no, I don't see anything that reminds of machine learning while using Baidu services.
To give you an example, search for 'Windows 7' in Baidu.
Here is the screen capture of the results I got (http://imgur.com/nNBSo3g), basically there is no mention of Microsoft's site. I do see the first is the link for people download this software for free. Ok, where is the machine learning? There could be a few reasons explaining this behavior, but I don't wish to go into those. To say the least: if it is not technical issue, it is ethical. Both are very important to shareholders.
As a control, I searched for the same on Google, and the first 2 results are from wikipedia, while the rest are from microsoft.com, mixed with news results from news sites, which are very to the point.
Another example, Baidu's SDK has opened up security holes up to 100 million Android devices (http://www.engadget.com/2015/11/02/bunk-baidu-sdk-puts-backd...), and unfortunately, this isn't the first incident in 2015. As far as I can recall, there are at least 3-4 similar issues, unintentionally or intentionally caused by technical incompetency.
Disclosure: I worked in China for some time and now still got business connection with it. I am not an armchair warrior to bash China.