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...Li S. Zhou '12 wanders the streets...
...Li, a professor of Chinese literature, said that “[Harvard’s] Chinese program ranks among the best in the country because of his leadership.” Lijuan Feng, a teaching assistant and drill instructor in the East Asian Languages and Civilizations department, said that “we don’t know what our department will be [like]” following Feng’s departure...
...then came Jan. 12, and for Li and Baidu, things went from the sublime to the ridiculous. That's the day Google drew its now famous line in the sand, saying it was no longer willing to censor its Internet searches in China - as the authoritarian government demands - given what it believes have been repeated attempts by Chinese authorities to hack its systems and steal dissidents' Gmail addresses. However noble Google's sentiment may be, in business terms it was "effectively a suicide note" when it came to the search business, as one rival Internet executive put it. "Google...
...easy to see the Baidu story as so many in China now do: Chinese upstart whips the American Goliath. But it's more complicated than that, as Li is the first to admit. The fact is, Baidu's success resembles a typically American success story. Li was born in an impoverished town about 200 miles (320 km) from Beijing, and as a young man was smart enough to get into Beida, as the Chinese call Peking University. Like so many students of that era - just after the government's assault on demonstrators in Tiananmen Square - he wanted...
...After getting his master's degree in computer science, Li became a consultant for IDD in 1994, then a financial-database company that was a subsidiary of Dow Jones. Even then, Li says, he was "intrigued with search," long before it became the hugely powerful, money-spinning machine that it is today. At IDD he developed an algorithm that ranked the popularity of various websites. He then got recruited by Infoseek, a company that had developed one of the first search engines in the mid-'90s - only to see Walt Disney acquire the company and shift its focus...