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Google's Chinese Rival Faces Lawsuit

Baidu.com, a Chinese search engine company, now faces an antimonopoly lawsuit brought on by Qmyyw.com, a Web site established by a Hebei medicine company, according to Shilin Jia. Baidu, Google's top rival in China, had been accused of misusing SEM to manipulate search results and accepting 3 million RMB from Sanlu, a Chinese dairy products company, to remove search results of negative images.

Jia draws on several posts, including a few written in Chinese and one that compares Google's and Baidu's SEO strategies, to encapsulate the news. He points to a post in Tianya, a popular Chinese Internet forum, revealing two screen shots of a sales plan that Baidu offered to car companies. The plan would remove search links related to negative news.

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