Violet McDonald

Information Literacy
Article One: http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/01/brazil-becomes-a-new-front-in-the-battle-between-baidu-andqihoo/
Two software companies, Baidu and PSafe, are in legal dispute right now over illegal competitive business
practices. Both have antivirus apps for smartphones, Baidu has DU Speed Booster, and PSafe has PSafe. When
installed on the same mobile device, Baidu's product, DU Speed Booster, repeatedly identifies PSafe as a virus
every five minutes in a pop-up. PSafe says this has led to 700k uninstalls of their PSafe app since january, due to
Qihoos app telling users that its unsafe.
Article Two: http://www.baguete.com.br/noticias/13/02/2015/psafe-peita-baidu-e-tira-app-da-google-play
found by searching "baidu psafe" on google.com
Article Three: http://malwaretips.com/threads/brazil-is-new-ground-for-qihoo-x-baidu-conflict.42311/
found by searching "baidu psafe" on duckduckgo.com
The search run on google was much more useful, because it returned a relevant news article as the second
result after clicking on "more news".

Duckduckgo wasnt as helpful because the majority of the links only found the keyword "baidu" and the first
result to have both "baidu" and "psafe" was a thread on a forum, not an actual news article.
TRAAP For Article Two

Time -- Friday 13th, February 2015

Relevance -- It talks about the lawsuit between Baidu and Psafe, and the results of the lawsuit

Authority -- I wasnt able to find any info about the author, Julia Merker, on the site, but I had trouble
navigating it because i had to translate the site to english

Accurate -- The information in the article matches the information in all the other articles i had found

Purpose -- The article was written to inform, it was presented without any apparent bias

Find two scholarly articles from the CCBC Library Databases

Article Five:
http://search.proquest.com.ccbcmd.idm.oclc.org/abicomplete/docview/1475268767/7E3FA70BD18D4
769PQ/3?accountid=3784
found by searching baidu psafe on ABI/INFORM Database
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Violet McDonald
Information Literacy
Article Six:
http://search.proquest.com.ccbcmd.idm.oclc.org/abicomplete/docview/1491388618/7E3FA70BD18D4
769PQ/1?accountid=3784
found by searching baidu psafe, again on ABI/INFORM Database
I used the ABI/INFORM Databse because I was searching about a lawsuit between two companies
Comparing Articles
The internet articles were significantly more useful in this case, they were easier to find, signigicanty
more up to date, and spoke much more about the lawsuit, whereas with the journal articles I was only
able to find articles that mentioned a rivalry between Baidu and PSafe indirectly, through Qihoos
investment in PSafe, and nothing about the lawsuit itself.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Ruvolo, J. (2015, March 1). Brazil Becomes A New Front In The Battle Between Baidu And Qihoo.
Retrieved March 1, 2015, from http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/01/brazil-becomes-a-new-front-in-thebattle-between-baidu-and
Merker, J. (2015, February 13). PSafe peita Baidu e tira app da Google Play. Retrieved March 1, 2015,
from http://www.baguete.com.br/noticias/13/02/2015/psafe-peita-baidu-e-tira-app-da-google-play
Jaspion. (2015, February 13). Brazil is new ground for Qihoo x Baidu conflict. Retrieved March 1, 2015,
from http://malwaretips.com/threads/brazil-is-new-ground-for-qihoo-x-baidu-conflict.42311/
DeTar, J. (2014, January 7). Qihoo, Baidu, SouFun Among Top 5 Chinese Young Guns. Retrieved March
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Gondo, N. (2014, January 27). Qihoo Broadens Business, Gains On Baidu. Retrieved March 1, 2015,
from
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769PQ/1?accountid=3784