Baidu knows what google doesn’t
Check out this hilarious ad from Chinese search engine, pointed out on Sam Flemming’s excellent blog. It features a depiction of a tall, white foreigner in a tophat [representing Google?] speaking a somewhat stupidly accented Chinese, holding the arm of a Chinese girl in a wig and a white wedding dress. Reminds me of some of the anti-foreign Chinese cartoons I’ve seen from the 1950s. Sam translates it as:
Background: There is a poster challenging anyone to try to make sense of a Chinese text. The text is short, but has no “stops” such as periods, so it is a bit tricky to understand. A foreigner enters into the town claiming “he knows” how to interpret the text.
Foreigner : I know! Heh heh.
Tangbohu (a famous Chinese clever guy) : Hahahaha~~ You may not know!
Tangbohu : I know you don’t know. I know you don’t know I know. YOU DON ’T KNOW.
Foreigner : I know!
All : Ei? [audience is surprised at Foreigner’s seeming agreement with Tangbohu that the foreigner does NOT know (as in does not “get it”]
Foreigner : Ei!I know!
Tangbohu : Not necessarily. I know you don’t know me, I know you don’t know me, haha~ I know you don’t know!
Foreigner : I know!
Tangbohu : I know that you don’t know I know. You don’t know that I know you don’t know!
Here is a translation of the final part of the commercial:
If you have any question, just “Baidu it”!
- Baidu understands Chinese the best, with custom developed stop word technology, understanding more precisely.
- Baidu understands Chinese best. Machine learning understands just as human along with phonetic key words customized for Chinese language.
- Baidu respects Chinese language most. Customized Chinese language processing and web page indexing technology.
- Baidu focuses on Chinese language most. Worlds best Chinese language technology team. Unbeatable.
- Baidu hosts the largest online community in the world with Tieba.