Man Killed by A Search Engine

The man killed by China's most popular search engine (Baidu) and a mercenary hospital

"Baidu controls the entrance to the information age for common people but points to the evil and dishonest world. It makes people lose trust in the Internet world, lose admiration for technology, and suspicion when using the most developed knowledge/information access techniques of this era.

It worsens the inequality of information possession and even intelligence. This sort of evil to the susceptible groups and the general public over the years is the deepest evil."

Wei Zexi, the only child in the family, 21 years old, majoring in computer science, underwent from extraordinary cancer-“synovial sarcoma”.

His situation was severe and he went to Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, and Guangzhou for help, but he was incapable to find a beneficial medical treatment anywhere.

In desperation, he found a hospital through Baidu, a very good hospital for this cancer according to the search engine.

The so-called “Immunotherapy” was suggested by a doctor there. The doctor said to him that this technology is formulated by Stanford. They collaborate with them, and the beneficial rate reaches 80% to 90%. He also told Wei Zexi's parents Wei Zexi can live for at least twenty years after treatment.

They borrowed money from relatives and friends and spent a total of more than 200k RMB in this hospital, but the outcome was that the condition worsened quickly and it was transferred to the lung in a few months.

This treatment has long been eradicated abroad because of its low cogency at the clinical stage. Now there is no such treatment used. However, when it comes to China, it has become the "newest technology” to make a profit.

The family spent a lot of money and treatment time there. After searching on the search engine, Wei Zexi was deceived by the Search Engine Marketing (it was an ad, but there wasn’t any sign to show it) and went to a wrong hospital. Then, he earned a kind of treatment that has no permission or confirmed consequence.

Wei Zexi was delayed in treatment and eventually died on April 12, 2016.

Later, the joint inquiry team of the state Cyber Information Office disclosed the investigation results of the occurrence.

The investigation group speculates that the results of the search engine's search for related keywords affect Wei Zexi's choice of medical treatment. The mechanism has such dilemmas as the too high weight of paid bidding and blurred commercial publicity logo, which requires rectification