Thursday, May 31, 2007

CCTV says it caught Baidu cheating


China's central TV CCTV said it has now proof for rumors going around in the market for a long time: the largest domestic search engine Baidu.com sells its search results for money. Even more, it sells top positions to companies who cheat their customers, reports China Tech News.
Since it only unveils what many users already expected, the fall-out of this scandal might be limited.
Legal experts quoted in local media say that there is not a law to regulate the behavior of the search engine service providers, so the only thing they can do is to suggest consumers not to rely too much on the search results of those search ngines.

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