--FILE--un cinese telefono cellulare utente guarda le icone delle applicazioni mobile Alipay, il servizio di pagamento online di Alibaba's Ant finanziario cinese, ricerca
--FILE--A Chinese mobile phone user looks at the icons of the mobile apps Alipay, the online payment service of Alibaba's Ant Financial, Chinese search engine Baidu and Chinese personalized news app Toutiao.com of Bytedance Ltd. on his smartphone in Ji'nan city, east China's Shandong province, 13 January 2018. The battle between Chinese internet firms escalated in recent days after Beijing-based news and information content platform Toutiao announced it was planning to sue Chinese search engine Baidu Inc for "unfair competition attempt." The Beijing Haidian District People's Court took the case on Tuesday (30 January 2018), Toutiao said in a statement published on its WeChat account. When users searched on Baidu for Toutiao, the first result showed that some content was compiled by unofficial sources, according to the statement published on Toutiao's official WeChat account. Then the second result led to the official website of Toutiao, however, upon clicking on the link, it came up with a warning that said "this website could not be visited because of an unstable server, " the statement noted. Toutiao said in a separate statement published on Monday that it has undergone a site safety test via a third-party website and the result showed that its website is in fact functioning normally. "This outcome proves that Baidu's search results and warning are misinformation, " it said.
