Sunday, September 16, 2012

SQ16.

Continuing with business and presenting the first real 'dry' Q of Finatic September Quiz:
In December 2007, this company became the first Chinese company to be included in the prestigious NASDAQ-100 Index. Founded in 2000, this company has already been a sensation. (Alexa ranking: 5 as of Aug 2012). The name of this company is particularly interesting: It is from the last line of a classical poem written more than 800 years ago. The poem writes about the search for the beautiful one amid several hardships of life. '... hundreds and thousands of times, for her I searched in chaos, suddenly, I turned by chance, to where the lights were waning, and there she stood'.
Give me the significance of 'hundreds and thousands of times' here for 5 straight points.

22 comments:

bikash agrawal said...

By Bikash Agrawal, SRCC

Baidu, whose literal meaning is hundreds of times, represents persistent search for the ideal. Hundred and Thousands of times tells about the search that was done before finally finding it. The context of the poem is that in ancient China, girls had to stay indoors and the Lantern Festival was one of the few times they could come out. In the sea and chaos of lantern lights, they would sneak away to meet their love and exchange promises to meet again next year.

Umang Gupta said...

Bai-du means a 100 times.
In the poem Green Jade Table in the Lantern Festival by Xin Qiji, a chinese girl searches for a lover 100 times which gives the chinese website its meaning.
Umang Gupta

Umang Gupta said...

Bai-du means a 100 times.
In the poem Green Jade Table in the Lantern Festival by Xin Qiji, a chinese girl searches for a lover 100 times which gives the chinese website its meaning.
Umang Gupta

MAYUR FINANCE said...

Baidu.com

Baidu's literal meaning is "hundreds of times" inspired by the poem written long back.

Shubham jain said...

The company Is 'Baidu'

Baidu, whose literal meaning is hundreds of times, represents persistent search for the ideal.

Robin...... said...

The company is 'Baidu', a Chinese web services company

The name 'Baidu' literally means 'hundreds of times' represent the persistent search for the ideal.

The One Who Can't Think Of A Cool Name said...

Hundreds and thousands of times in Baidu's name represents "a persistent search for the ideal".

-Udit

RAKTIM NAG said...

company is BAIDU.it's literal meaning is hundreds of times,thus it represents the persistent search for the ideal.

raktim nag.

Unknown said...

the connect: BAIDU

Explanation: Significance of hundreds and thousands of times-
Baidu, whose literal meaning is hundreds of times, represents persistent search for the ideal.

ambuj said...

Baidu,the literal meaning of the word is hundreds of times. So the name of the co. is inspired by this.

Sanchit Gupta said...

it is the Chinese search engine baidu.com
significance of "hundreds and thousands of times" is that Baidu literal meaning is hundred of times and it represents persistent search for ideal.
sanchit gupta

NAVENDU SHEKHAR said...

Baidu Inc. is the company talked about. Literal meaning of Baidu is hundreds of times, represents persistent search for the ideal.
Hundreds and thousands of times ... here signify in the context of poem that n ancient China, girls had to stay indoors and the Lantern Festival was one of the few times they could come out. In the sea and chaos of lantern lights, they would sneak away to meet their love and exchange promises to meet again next year.

In the context of company, it means that as it is basically a search engine, it provides an eas way of searching people, files, videos or audios.



NAVENDU SHEKHAR

VIKASH KUMAR said...

Baidu Inc. is the company talked about. Literal meaning of Baidu is hundreds of times, represents persistent search for the ideal.
Hundreds and thousands of times ... here signify in the context of company that as it is basically a search engine, it provides an eas way of searching people, files, videos or audios, trying to give a solution to the problem discussed in the poem where girls keep searching for lovers in the crowd



Vikash Kumar Gupta

Dhruv Sharma said...

Baidu, the Chinese search engine. Baidu literally means "Hundreds and Thousands of times"

adish jain said...

The name of the company is BAIDU, chinese search engine which literally means "hundreds of times" and it searches that times for the desired result.

ADISH JAIN

Sugandha Ranjan said...

BAIDU name was inspired by a poem written more than 800 years ago during the Song Dynasty. The poem compares the search for a retreating beauty amid chaotic glamour with the search for one's dream while confronted by life's many obstacles. "…hundreds and thousands of times, for her I searched in chaos, suddenly, I turned by chance, to where the lights were waning, and there she stood." Baidu, whose literal meaning is “hundreds of times”, represents A PERSISTENT SEARCH FOR THE IDEAL

-SUGANDHA RANJAN

Chirag Jain said...

Baidu also meaning hundreds and thousands of times. Baidu.com is a very search engine in China

Subhashish said...

Baidu.

It is a search engine and since the poem talks about searching 'hundreds and thousands of times' before finding the right one, it is relevant to a search engine context.

Unknown said...

Baidu, Inc. is the company.
'Baidu' was inspired by a poem written more than 800 years ago during the Song Dynasty. The poem compares the search for a retreating beauty amid chaotic glamour with the search for one's dream while confronted by life's many obstacles. '...hundreds and thousands of times, for her I searched in chaos, suddenly, I turned by chance, to where the lights were waning, and there she stood.' Baidu, whose literal meaning is hundreds of times, represents persistent search for the ideal.

MUKUL NAYYAR

smartflight said...

The company is Baidu. Baidu literally means 'hundreds of times' and represents persistent search for the ideal.

Unknown said...

The connect is Baidu, a Chinese web services company.

Baidu provides an index of over 740 million web pages, 80 million images, and 10 million multimedia files.

Here is where the significance lies of "hundreds and thousands of times". i.e, it being a search engine, in context with the poem, you look for something repeatedly and in haste, only to find it one step(search) away.

- Lakshita Mehrotra, SSCBS

Shruti Nair said...

BAIDU means hundreds and thousands of times and Baidu is the Chinese site.
- Shruti Nair