Baidu accused of abusing dominant position

BEIJING - Baidu Inc may face anti-monopoly scrutiny after a Chinese website launched a complaint against the country's biggest search engine.

Hudong.com, an online encyclopedia, is alleging that Baidu unfairly blocks its Web pages from search results in favor of its own encyclopedia service, Baidu Baike.

The complaint will be a new test for China's anti-monopoly watchdog, the State Administration for Industry and Commerce (SAIC), which launched new regulations in January to facilitate more investigations, according to analysts.