Etymology

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Mandarin 百度
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  1. Mandarin · borrowed from百度
  2. English todayBaidu

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 百度 (Bǎidù, literally “hundreds of times”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.