Baidu, Inc. provides Chinese language Internet search services primarily in the People's Republic of China and Japan. The company offers a Chinese language search platform that enables users to find online information, such as Web pages, news, images, and multimedia files. Its products include Baidu Web Search that allows users to locate information, products, and services using Chinese language search terms; Baidu Post Bar and Baidu Knows, which provides users with a query-based searchable community; and Baidu News that provides links to local, national, and international news. The company also provides Baidu MP3 Search that provides algorithm-generated links to songs and other multimedia files; Baidu Image Search to search various images on the net; Baidu Video Search to search for and access through hyperlinks of online video clips that are hosted on third parties? Web sites; and Baidu Space to create personalized homepages in a query-based searchable community. In addition, it offers Baidu Hi, an IM service; Baidu Youa, an online C2C platform; Baidu Safety Center for virus scanning, system repair, and online security evaluations; Baidu Desktop Search, a downloadable software that enables users to search various files saved on their computer; Baidu Sobar, which makes search function available on every Web page that a user browses; Baidu Anti-Virus for anti-virus software products and computer virus-related news; and Baidu Internet TV that allows users to search, watch, and download various shows and programs. Baidu, Inc. serves SMEs and corporations, as well as e-commerce, IT services, consumer products, electronic products, machinery, manufacturing, medical, entertainment, education, franchising, financial services, real estate, ticketing, and tourism industries. The company was formerly known as Baidu.com, Inc. and changed its name to Baidu, Inc. in December 2008. Baidu, Inc. was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Beijing, the People's Republic of China.