he unthinkable has happened. Google and Yahoo are no longer the preferred search engines, at least in China. Homegrown David, baidu.com, has toppled both the Goliaths. Robin Li, formerly a staff engineer at Infoseek, founded the search company in 1999. And today, Baidu has a market value of $3 billion and operates the fourth-most trafficked Web site in the world.

And Baidu has done what no other Internet company has been able to do - clobbered Google and Yahoo on their turf.... more