Baidu v. Qihoo 360 claims 100 million yuan search war into the judicial process

Qihoo 360 and Baidu's search war began to enter the judicial process. It is reported that Baidu on October 16 to the first Intermediate People's Court in Beijing filed pleadings, the prosecution of Qihoo 360 unfair competition and copyright infringement, claiming 100 million yuan, asked Qihoo 360 stop crawling Baidu site content and public apology.

Baidu confirmed the news, but declined to comment. Qihoo 360 Company received the petition around October 25.

August 16, 2012, 360 search online, and quickly get the domestic search market 10% of the traffic share. August 28, Baidu to 360 of the search to take countermeasures, will be from the 360 search user request to jump to Baidu home page. "The 300 war" broke out.

At present, the case is in the pre-trial mediation stage, but whether the two sides accept conciliation is not known. Previously, the two sides on unfair competition and copyright infringement issues, respectively, the Ministry of Industries and the Beijing municipal copyright authorities have reported. The Ministry of Industry and Telecommunications administration also interviewed two companies on August 31, asking the two sides not to create incidents to magnify things, do not harm the rights of netizens, stop all technical means, stop public opinion attacks, each delete their own offensive speech.