According to Business Week's list of "The Best (and) Worst Leaders of 2006," Li was ranked third and his company was described as the "Best Answer to Google Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer might want to have a sit-down with Chinese entrepreneur Robin Li. The founder and CEO of Baidu.com has achieved something that Microsoft's top brass have yet to manage-beating Google. On January 31, 2008, Ballmer made a proposal to Yahoo! to acquire outstanding shares of the company’s common stock for per-share consideration of $31 in the hope of rapidly expanding Microsoft's presence in the online search advertising market dominated by Google