Baidu Told to Stop Ranking Search Results Based Solely on Money It's Paid

(Beijing) – The government has told search giant Baidu Inc. that it cannot rank results solely based on an amount of money it received, as it deals with a public furor over the death of a cancer patient who had complained that the search giant led him to shoddy treatment.

The Cyberspace Administration of China, the government body that supervises the country's Internet, said in a statement on its website on May 9 that Baidu "cannot rank search results merely based on the amount of money" that the company's customers pay.