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China to regulate search results after man’s death

BEIJING: China issued new regulations on Saturday demanding search engines to clearly identify paid search results, months after a terminally-ill cancer patient

Published on: Jun 26, 2016 09:07 AM IST
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BEIJING: China issued new regulations on Saturday demanding search engines to clearly identify paid search results, months after a terminally-ill cancer patient complained that he was misled by search engine Baidu. Wei Zexi, who died in April after suffering from a rare cancer, had written a post on how he was led to a hospital for treatment which turned out to be ineffective and expensive.

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