China announced on Monday a crackdown campaign against major websites that officials accused of threatening morals by spreading pornography and vulgarity, including the dominant search engines Google and Baidu.com, Financial Times reported. The 19 internet operators and websites named had failed to swiftly cut "vulgar" content and had not heeded warnings from censors. Baidu dominates the Chinese web search and advertising market with an estimated two-thirds of the audience. Google, the global market leader, is a distant number two in China.
