SHANGHAI: Chinese Internet giant Baidu’s second-quarter profits plunged 34%, it reported, as a scandal over its policies for displaying paid ads cut into customer growth.
In May, Baidu was summoned by regulators and lashed by Chinese media over the death of a student whose family used the search engine to seek a cancer cure that did not work.
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