The man behind China’s answer to Google: accused by critics of piracy and censorship – Jonathan Watts

From Guardian Unlimited:

He is the man who beat Google to dominate the world’s fastest-growing internet market, and he has done it by building a search engine with a distinctly Chinese character.

Robin Li ‘s Baidu.com is a search engine that is weak on piracy and strong on censorship. It is very much in keeping with a country that mixes ultra- capitalist economics with authoritarian communist politics.

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