Analysis on the First Anti-monopoly Case about Search Engine of China-also on the Legal Risk of Search Engines

All Information Service Co., Ltd. of Tangshan v. Baidu Company is paid much attention to and called the first anti-monopoly case in the networking field in China. The hearing took nearly one year and the case was decided on December 18, 2009. The case is interesting and involved with a new question of whether shield acts of search engines are one kind of monopoly and under what circumstances they may be. In deciding similar cases, there are several factors to consider, such as the identification of a dominant market position, the reason, purpose and effect of shield act.