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Baidu’s Problems: The Other Side of the Equation

Lately, there has been much discussion about Baidu’s problems re the disclosure that they were accepting payments from makers of less than consumer-friendly products for higher rankings. David Wolf has an excellent posting about how Baidu has hurt... ...full story at China Vortex

from China Vortex on Thu, Dec 04 2008

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