Baidu founder rules China's Web with pragmatism – China News

www.reuters.com — In the autumn of 1998, computer science engineer Li Yanhong developed Rankdex, an experimental search engine that ranked websites according to their relevance to each other.
At around the same time, Google Inc's (GOOG.O) Larry Page and Sergey Brin were tinkering with an algorithm that would make their search engine the largest in the world.

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