dub3 card · www.baidu.com
Baidu (2001)
China's answer to Google — behind the Great Firewall.
- Cost
- 6 RAM
- Power
- 10
- Rarity
- Epic
- Family
- Search
- Era
- Dot-com (1999 to 2002)
- Collection
- Megacorps
What it does
Ongoing: +1 Power to this card for each card you have in play, up to +4.
Ongoing is always on while the card is in play.
It costs 6 RAM to play and brings 10 Power to its lane. You get 1 RAM in round 1, 2 in round 2, and so on.
Search cards grow with the friends in their lane, and some draw you cards.
The site, in 2001
China's biggest search engine, started in Beijing by Robin Li and Eric Xu.
Its name means 'hundred times'. Li had built RankDex, a search tool that ranked sites by their links, in 1996. In December 2007 Baidu became the first Chinese company in the NASDAQ-100 index.
In 2001: It began letting advertisers bid for ad space and pay Baidu each time someone clicked their ad.
Dot-com era, 1999 to 2002. Glossy buttons, big money and a bug called Y2K. Some of these companies were worth billions for about a fortnight.
Megacorps: The giants. You've used most of them today.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 2001 page.
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 2001, then plays a short scene. Want Baidu in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
