Operator hijacked website Traffic first case final

April 21 Morning News, Qingdao Unicom and its partners because of the traffic hijacked Baidu, by the court of final confirmation of unfair competition, will compensate Baidu 200,000 yuan fine and apologize.　　This means that the first telecommunications operators to hijack commercial web site traffic generated by the dispute, the final dust settled.　　Since February 2009, the Qingdao unicom Internet users in Baidu input search keyword, the total must first enter a last 10 seconds or so of the advertising page before they can enter the corresponding Baidu search results page.　　Baidu, which has never launched a similar advertising business, has found the advertisement is launched by Qingdao Unicom and Qingdao Austrian network cooperation, its characteristics are no need to install client Plug-ins, unable to block, forced pop-up, Qingdao Unicom even issued "Qingdao Unicom users please endure 8 seconds" article, demanding users endure its launch of forced advertising pop-up business.　　Subsequently, Baidu to "unfair competition" to the Qingdao Intermediate People's Court filed a lawsuit, that the other party objectively stolen Baidu in Qingdao area of user traffic, thus constituting a clear infringement and unfair competition behavior.　　Last September, Qingdao Chinese Academy of Justice after the trial, Qingdao Unicom, such as the intervention of the above constitute the company's unfair competition, the decision of Qingdao Unicom and other joint compensation Baidu 200,000 yuan, and on their own website to publish an apology statement. After the decision of the first instance, Qingdao Unicom appealed to the high people's Court of Shandong province. April 14, 2010, the High People's Court of Shandong province in the case of the final judgment, that the first instance of the decision to determine the facts clearly, the applicable law is correct, dismissed the Qingdao Unicom appeal request. (Menghong)