How did Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent get their names? The name of the three giants of the Internet is revealed

The story of Alibaba and the Forty Thieves must be very familiar to all of us, mainly about a poor, penniless woodcutter Alibaba on the way to chop wood, inadvertently discovered the robber group's hidden treasure. He easily gets a large amount of wealth, but he doesn't keep it all for himself. But good intentions are not rewarded, and the robbers plot to kill Ali Baba in order to get rid of him. Alibaba was helped by his clever, witty and cynical maid, Margiana, to turn the tables and defeat the robbers.

And what is the connection between Ali Baba and this story?

In fact, there is no real connection between Alibaba and this story. When Alibaba was founded, because e-commerce is a global business, Jack Ma wanted the company to have a name that was familiar to people all over the world.

The name Alibaba was chosen because Ma felt that people around the world would know the story of Alibaba and the Forty Thieves. Not only is Alibaba a very international name, it's also a story that many people know, and it's basically a household name in foreign countries in the same way that we Chinese think of the Water Margin, which indirectly saves a lot of promotional spending. As a result, Jack Ma eventually named the company Alibaba.

At the same time, Alibaba also means "Open Sesame", which means that Alibaba's platform will open the door to wealth for small businesses.

Tencent's name is well known to those who know a little bit about it. The word "Tencent" is taken from the name of Tencent's founder, Ma Huateng, and the word "Xun" is used because when Tencent was founded, the main thing it did was to use instant messaging software, QICQ, which is the same QQ that almost every post-90s person has used since then.

The name Tencent is a reference to a company that has been in the business for a long time, but it's not the same as Tencent. However, at the beginning of Tencent, there are five founders, known as the "Tencent five tigers" CEO Ma Huateng, CIO Xu Chenye, CTO Zhang Zhidong, COO Zeng Liqing, CAO Chen Yidan, the five founding shareholders. Why did you choose to take the name of Ma Huateng?

In fact, there are two main reasons.

First, the software QICQ itself is written by Ma Huateng, he is the real starting point of Tencent.

Secondly, Tencent this "Teng" word, in addition to the name taken from Ma Huateng, there are also flying, soaring, and other symbolism.

In the BAT three companies, although Baidu was founded the time is one of the latest, but undeniably, Baidu is the first famous, into our lives. The reason for this, as we all know, is mainly because Baidu started out as a search engine and is still the world's largest Chinese search engine. At that time, the Internet had just started to become popular, and a large proportion of users were not deep users, and their main activities on the Internet were searching, looking up information, and so on. So Baidu's fame and popularity was also the earliest and fastest, and it can be said that it was the first to come to the forefront compared to Tencent and Alibaba.

How did Baidu get its name?

In 1999, Robin Li in Silicon Valley saw the huge potential of the Chinese Internet and Chinese search engine services, and with the dream of changing the world with technology, he decided to quit his high-paying job in Silicon Valley and return to China with a patented search engine technology.

In fact, the word "Baidu" was taken from the Southern Song lyricist Xin Qiji's "The Case of the Green Jade" from 800 years ago. The word "Baidu" was taken from the Southern Song Dynasty lyricist Xin Qiji's "The Case of the Green Jade" in "Yuansi", which says, "I've been searching for him for a thousand years, and when I look back, he's in the darkness of the lights". Why the word "Baidu"?

Baidu's founder, Robin Li, is a big fan of Tang and Song poems and advocates traditional Chinese culture, so he chose to intercept the name from ancient poems. Secondly, the poem, "I've been looking for him for a thousand years, and when I look back, he's in the dark", itself implies the meaning of searching, searching, so it can be said that Baidu's name is the most romantic sentiment.

Most importantly, because Baidu is a Chinese search engine, but the development of the main face of the global users, but also in the process of the process of the promotion of Chinese culture.

Now do you know the origin of the names of the BAT Internet trio?