百度割裂:被遗忘的第四象限

The forgotten Fourth Quadrant for Baidu

在过去的几年里，对于百度这家公司来说，它曾在中国互联网历史上留下过几笔浓墨重彩的痕迹。在无数网民的记忆中，“帝吧出征，寸草不生”一度代表着百度贴吧的力量，“19亿美元天价收购91无线”也曾显示出百度坚决向移动互联网转型的决心，“3年投资200~Z元”的糯米更是将2015年020市场的火热情绪推向高潮。

In the first half of 2017, Lu Qi, the new president of Baidu, rearranged all the business lines in an executive conference for Baidu. He drew a picture of four quadrants, and put every business unit in it according to its importance degree. Thus,the business units with critical missions,for example, Feed, was put into the first quadrant. And the support departments and business units with non-critical missions were put into the fourth quadrant.For units in this quadrant, like Baidu Post Bar, would face an uncertain future.In Lu's not long tenure, the only label people would attach to Baidu was AI. But after Lu's sudden leaving, its label became vague again.