Baidu biz model faces legal challenges

Chinese Internet company Baidu Inc may have to face a legal dispute by the end of this month.

Li Changqing, a lawyer from George Wu & Partners Law Firm, said he will launch an anti-monopoly lawsuit against the country's largest search engine by the end of December.

He said Baidu, which holds about 70 percent of China's search engine market, has abusively used its dominant position by blocking websites that refused to pay for listings in its search results.