Baidu
founder and CEO Robin Li has been at pains to downplay a recent
challenge to his company's iron-clad grip on the Chinese search market from Internet upstart Qihoo 360. But when you're going up against one of the scrappiest members of China's contentious Internet
entrepreneur club, it's hard to keep your name out of the headlines.
百度创始人、首席执行长李彦宏一直在极力淡化百度牢牢把控中国搜索市场的地位所受到的挑战。这一挑战来自互联网新秀奇虎360。但作为中国吵吵闹闹的互联网企业家俱乐部中最有斗志的成员之一,很难不让自己的名字出现在新闻头条之中。
Baidu BIDU -0.77% sued Qihoo in October,
saying the antivirus company had made illicit use of Baidu content in the new search engine it launched in August. Qihoo
founder Zhou Hongyi shot back, accusing Baidu of purposefully pushing
negative articles about his company to the top of Baidu searches. The fight led to the two companies signing a fair-play code of conduct following
intervention from a government-backed industry group