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Baidu Says ‘Steve Jobs’ No.2 Most-Popular Search Term in China

December 21, 2011, 6:44 AM EST

By Mark Lee

Dec. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Baidu Inc., owner of China’s most- popular search engine, said Apple Inc. late founder Steve Jobs’s name was the second-most-searched term among its users in 2011, followed by former Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi.

The Tiangong-1 space module was the most-searched term, spokesman Kaiser Kuo Kuo said by phone today.

To contact the reporter on this story: Mark Lee in Hong Kong at wlee37@bloomberg.net

To contact the editor responsible for this story: Marco Lui at mlui11@bloomberg.net

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