On: Where Google Loses: How did Baidu outsmart Google?

Baidu was indeed helped by the Chinese government. For example, google.com was redirecting to baidu.com (http://www.therawfeed.com/2007/10/chinese-redirecting-google... for example), Baidu can (could?) also help looking for illegal mp3 (http://www.danwei.org/china_information/baidu_bidu_guide_bai...), etc.