Baidu Japan is gone

[bill]

http://asiajin.com/blog/2015/04/15/baidu-japan-becomes-unreachable/ [asiajin.com]

Baidu Japan Shut Down Search Service

[Update] Baidu Japan site is on, but there is no search form any more.

Baidu Japan [baidu.jp...] a Japanese arm of the Chinese largest search company Baidu, stopped offering search service for Japanese.

2007-2015 RIP Baidu

[bill]

https://www.techinasia.com/baidu-shuts-japan-search-engine/ [techinasia.com]

After 8 years of failing, Baidu shuts Japan search engine

The Baidu.jp search engine actually closed on March 16, the spokesperson said. But it seems that few people have noticed the closure and it hasn’t yet been reported on – a rather awkward indicator of how unsuccessful the venture was. “It’s no secret that Baidu’s Japanese search engine never got much traction. As we stopped updating the index in 2013, search user numbers in the last year or so have been insignificant,” conceded the spokesperson.

Wow. I knew Baidu Japan was not too popular, but I didn't realize just how unpopular it really was.