Is it laziness? At first glance all the copying seems like it might be for the sake of efficiency, but I’ve observed first hand that it actually takes More work, not less, to copy someone else’s web design instead of starting from a blank slate. So why do they do it?

I have a theory that Chinese people copy because they have “4000 years of history” and at a certain point the general population threw up their hands and said everything good has already been done so time was better spent imitating the masters instead of challenging them. I think it coincided with the time Confucius became all the rage. Respect those ancestors and all that.

Both are established search engines. There’s no point marketing to one, even if it seems like a nice gimmick. Bullshit does indeed baffle brains.

Google wins in an often overlook statistic - which search engine do higher income earners prefer, compared to incomeless students who go for Baidu far more.

In the end competition is good and Ask have the best English language results.

The Baidu Basics webinar thingy is tomw, so hopefully I’ll be proven otherwise.