In a recent interview with a program sponsored by China’s Toutiao company, Dr. Wu Jun judged that “Baidu has been an ossified company in the past seven or eight years and is now hopeless”.
Wu Jun was a senior engineer in Google and later became vice president of Tencent responsible for its search engine product SOSO. SOSO was closed in two years and then redirects to Tencent’s partner Sogou.com, a competitor of Baidu.