A smartphone showing the Baidu Browser application is seen in this picture illustration taken February 22, 2016. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj
BEIJING: The death of a student following experimental cancer treatment he found through China's biggest search engine, Baidu Inc, has exposed the faultlines in the company's business model, which relies heavily on income from the country's lightly regulated health sector.
Before his death, student Wei Zexi, 21, criticized the military-run hospital that provided the failed treatment for misleading claims about its effectiveness and accused Baidu, which controls 80% of the Chinese search market, of promoting false medical information.
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