Baidu for Obama?

Posted on April 8, 2008 by John

If you follow the “web 2.0” world, TechCrunch is a “must read” and I caught their blog posting “Baidu Loves Barack, I’m Sure He’s Thrilled” and saw that on Baidu’s front page today, they have a cartoon of Barack Obama, along with a (Democratic) donkey.

Apparently Baidu does this “person of the month” feature since this past November and selects a real-life or fictional personality who has ranked high in its search queries. Okay, but why an American politician running for president? Are there that many people in China interested in Obama? It’s not like the Chinese can vote in America, let alone in China! There’s that media bias against Hillary Clinton – LOL.

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I'm a Taiwanese-American and was born & raised in Western Massachusetts, went to college in upstate New York, worked in Connecticut, went to grad school in North Carolina and then moved out to the Bay Area in 1999 and have been living here ever since - love the weather and almost everything about the area (except the high cost of housing...)
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