Alternatives and competitors

Sites like Baidu

The 20 closest web search engine alternatives to Baidu, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 2 technologies behind it.

Looking for an alternative to Baidu? The closest matches are ChinaZ.com, Sohu and so.com. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.

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01 · Entity

About Baidu

Baidu baidu.com

Wikidata: Chinese web services company

Top 100 · #88 2 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026

Summary by Claude

Baidu is a Chinese-language web search engine that also offers related services such as maps, an online encyclopedia (Baidu Baike), discussion forums (Tieba), news, image search and cloud storage.

Who it’s for
Chinese-speaking internet users
Business model
Advertising

02 · Embedding space

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to Baidu’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.

similarity × popularity

China News ServiceDoubansina.comBahamut Gamer's CommunityQQ.comGoogleSogouso.comSohuChinaZ.com

03 · Nearest neighbours

Alternatives to Baidu

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Baidu, thumbs down if it isn’t.

We can’t read baidu.com’s homepage (robots.txt disallows our crawler), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.

  1. 01
    ChinaZ.com chinaz.com Top 10K

    站长之家 - 站长资讯-我们致力于为中文网站提供动力!

    站长之家(中国站长站)为个人站长与企业网络提供全面的站长资讯、源代码程序下载、海量建站素材、强大的搜索优化辅助工具、网络产品设计与运营理念以及一站式网络解决方案,十年来我们一直致力为中文网站提供动力。

  2. 02
    Sohu sohu.com Top 1K

    Chinese Internet company

  3. 03
    so.com Top 10K

    360搜索,SO靠谱

    360搜索是安全、精准、可信赖的新一代搜索引擎,依托于360母品牌的安全优势,全面拦截各类钓鱼欺诈等恶意网站,提供更放心的搜索服务。 360搜索 so靠谱。

  4. 04
    Sogou sogou.com Top 10K

    Chinese Internet search engine

  5. 05
    Google google.com.hk Top 1K German

    Google

    Hong Kong subsidiary of Google China

  6. 06
    QQ.com qq.com Top 100 Chinese

    腾讯网

    腾讯网从2003年创立至今,已经成为集新闻信息,区域垂直生活服务、社会化媒体资讯和产品为一体的互联网媒体平台。腾讯网下设新闻、科技、财经、娱乐、体育、汽车、时尚等多个频道,充分满足用户对不同类型资讯的需求。同时专注不同领域内容,打造精品栏目,并顺应技术发展趋势,推出网络直播等创新形式,改变了用户获取资讯的方式和习惯。

  7. 07
    Bahamut Gamer's Community gamer.com.tw Top 10K Chinese

    巴哈姆特電玩資訊站 - 系統異常回報

    Taiwanese ACG Internet forum

  8. 08
    sina.com sina.com.cn Top 1K

    新浪网

    新浪网为全球用户24小时提供全面及时的中文资讯,内容覆盖国内外突发新闻事件、体坛赛事、娱乐时尚、产业资讯、实用信息等,设有新闻、体育、娱乐、财经、科技、房产、汽车等30多个内容频道,同时开设博客、视频、论坛等自由互动交流空间。

  9. 09
    Douban douban.com Top 10K Chinese

    豆瓣

    提供图书、电影、音乐唱片的推荐、评论和价格比较,以及城市独特的文化生活。

  10. 10
    China News Service chinanews.com.cn Top 10K

    中国新闻网_梳理天下新闻

    中国新闻网,是知名的中文新闻门户网站,也是全球互联网中文新闻资讯最重要的原创内容供应商之一。依托中新社遍布全球的采编网络,每天24小时面向广大网民和网络媒体,快速、准确地提供文字、图片、视频等多样化的资讯服务。在新闻报道方面,中新网动态新闻及时准确,解释性报道角度独特,稿件被国内外网络媒体大量转载。

  11. 11
    Youku youku.com Top 1K

    优酷-热门独播剧集综艺电影在线观看-为好内容全力以赴

    优酷视频是中国领先的在线视频平台,提供海量正版高清电视剧、电影、综艺、动漫、纪录片等视频内容,独家热播剧集实时更新,畅享流畅观影体验。

  12. 12
    Zhihu zhihu.com Top 10K

    Chinese question-and-answer website

  13. 13
    ifeng.com Top 10K Chinese

    凤凰网

    凤凰网是中国领先的综合门户网站,提供含文图音视频的全方位综合新闻资讯、深度访谈、观点评论、财经产品、互动应用、分享社区等服务,同时与凤凰无线、凤凰宽频形成三屏联动,为全球主流华人提供互联网、无线通信、电视网三网融合无缝衔接的新媒体优质体验。

  14. 14
    cnblogs.com Top 10K Chinese

    博客园 - 开发者的网上家园

    博客园是一个面向开发者的知识分享社区。自创建以来,博客园一直致力并专注于为开发者打造一个纯净的技术交流社区,推动并帮助开发者通过互联网分享知识,从而让更多开发者从中受益。博客园的使命是帮助开发者用代码改变世界。

  15. 15
    163.com Top 1K

    网易

    网易是中国领先的互联网技术公司,为用户提供免费邮箱、游戏、搜索引擎服务,开设新闻、娱乐、体育等30多个内容频道,及博客、视频、论坛等互动交流,网聚人的力量。

  16. 16
    ByteDance bytedance.com Top 10K

    ByteDance - Inspire Creativity, Enrich Life

    ByteDance develops products and services that empower people and organizations to create, connect, and discover.

  17. 17
    Xinhuanet xinhuanet.com Top 10K

    新华网_让新闻离你更近

    中国主要重点新闻网站,依托新华社遍布全球的采编网络,记者遍布世界100多个国家和地区,地方频道分布全国31个省市自治区,每天24小时同时使用6种语言滚动发稿,权威、准确、及时播发国内外重要新闻和重大突发事件,受众覆盖200多个国家和地区,发展论坛是全球知名的中文论坛。

  18. 18
    Bilibili bilibili.com Top 1K Chinese

    bilibili

    哔哩哔哩(bilibili.com)是国内知名的视频弹幕网站,这里有及时的动漫新番,活跃的ACG氛围,有创意的Up主。大家可以在这里找到许多欢乐。

  19. 19
    Weibo weibo.com Top 1K

    Chinese microblogging website

  20. 20
    Huawei huawei.com Top 1K English

    Huawei - Building a Fully Connected, Intelligent World

    Huawei is a leading global provider of information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure and smart devices.

Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to baidu.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Baidu uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.

04 · Fingerprints

Technology

What Baidu is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.

Built with

SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
  • GlobalSign TXT _globalsign-domain-verification=qjb28W2jJSrWj04NHpB0CvgK9tle5JkOq-Ecy…
  • Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=GHb98-6msqyx_qqjGl5eRatD3QTHyVB6-xQ3gJB5UwM

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