BIDU and Google

Are BIDU and Google affiliated in any way? I always hear the two mentioned in tandem. I have not been keeping up with stocks as I'm not trading futures. (much more simplistic and less stressful for me atleast). I usually don't care but in this particular case I was just curious.

CajunSniper / Puretick.com Administrator-Trader

 

Baidu is China's leading search engine...Google is paired with another leading, although far from Baidu in rankings hit-wise, search engine.

That's about the gist of it. There's more but I don't have the time tonight...if I get a chance I'll write more tomorrow.

cheers.

 

China index vs BIDU divergence. I still think bidu touches 104 soon. my opinion only.

 

google has a block of bidu shares... pre IPO that is... i think you can see that in the prospectus

 

pretty sure they've liquidated them...it was only like 600k shares or something...just off the top of my head.