The report comes amid other Baidu moves to break into new areas as it seeks growth outside of search, such as e-commerce, online video, social networking, and even browsers.

For instance, Baidu.com recently formed Qiyi, and if Baidu begins directing most video searches to its own site, that could harm other sites, since Baidu is China’s dominant search engine.

The report comes amid other Baidu moves to break into new areas as it seeks growth outside of search, such ase-commerce, online video, social networking, and even browsers.