Baidu

When it comes to online search, one company dominates like no other: Google parent Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOGL) (NASDAQ:GOOG). In the first quarter of 2017, the company commanded a 79% worldwide market share of desktop search and a stunning 96% in the mobile and tablet category according to netmarketshare.com. Baidu, Inc. (NASDAQ:BIDU) has been called the "Google of China" and has followed its U.S. counterpart into a surprising number of emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI) and autonomous driving. Baidu is the search leader on its home turf after Google abandoned China because of censorship in 2010. Baidu is considered to be among the forerunners in both AI and self-driving cars in its native China, but technologically, it lags Google in both.