Baidu Inc.'s Statement on Partial Media Reports Regarding the "Incorrect Linking by Yesky" Incident

Recently, some media reported that after searching for "Yesky Download" through the Baidu search engine and clicking on the second link on the page titled "Yesky Download Channel", users would be directed to a related page of Sky Software Station.

After learning about this situation, Baidu quickly conducted a technical analysis. The conclusion showed that this phenomenon was due to a manual editing error in Yesky's "Yesky Download Channel", and Yesky should bear full responsibility for this error.

The specific process of this error is that on the relevant pages of the "Yesky Download Channel", the link named "Yesky Download Channel" actually points to the subpage of Sky Software Station at http://www.skycn.com/soft/19151.html. (See Figure 1)

After this erroneous link was automatically crawled and indexed by the Baidu search engine, it caused users who clicked on the title "Yesky Download Channel" in the Baidu search results to be redirected to a related page of Sky Network. This result, caused by Yesky's manual editing error, has harmed the user experience of Baidu.

In fact, when you search for "Yesky Download" on Baidu, you can see that the first link on the page, titled "Software Download Game Download Source Code Download...", correctly directs to the relevant page of Yesky Download. This further illustrates that Baidu does not engage in any modification or control of third-party webpages linked. (See Figure 2)

In this incident, some media reports...