How does Baidu Sue today's headlines? What's the truth behind Baidu's lawsuit against today's headlines? Baidu sued Beijing Haidian District People's court for unfair competition for stealing a large number of Baidu's' top 1 'search results in today's headlines, demanding that the infringement be stopped immediately and that the relevant economic losses and reasonable expenses be compensated for a total of 90 million yuan.
On April 26, baidu sued Beijing Haidian District People's court for unfair competition for stealing a large number of Baidu's' top 1 'search product results from today's headline (Beijing byte beat Technology Co., Ltd.), demanding that byte beat immediately stop the infringement, compensate for relevant economic losses and reasonable expenses, totaling 90 million yuan, and apologize on its app and website home page for 30 consecutive days. In addition to the civil prosecution, baidu also submitted the application form of behavior prohibition preservation to the court at the same time.
It is reported that the 'Top1' product involved in this case is the abbreviation of the 'search results first directly meet' search product launched by Baidu in early 2017. Different from traditional search, which uses URL (link address) to meet users' search needs, Top1 products directly show users the answers or resources they are looking for in the first place of search results, so as to improve the efficiency of users' access to information.
Baidu said that recently it found that in the search results of today's Toutiao 'Toutiao search' service, there are a large number of contents that embezzle the search results of Baidu's' top 1 products'. The embezzled contents include not only the top 1 search results mined by Baidu using algorithms and historical data, but also the top 1 search results that Baidu spends a lot of cost to operate with its ecological partners. In Baidu's view, this behavior is a blatant theft of its own technology and labor achievements, which has constituted infringement.
Baidu showed some evidence to the court: in today's headline search 'can crabs and tomatoes be poisoned', the image in the first search result is marked with Baidu logo watermark; while in the search '1 cubic centimeter of water equals how many liters', the word' copied from Baidu 'is embedded in the first search result.
It is reported that today's headlines have removed all top 1 products with Baidu's "anti-counterfeiting mark" in search results.