Baidu Inc said on Thursday that it may expand its search-engine agreement with Microsoft Corp in China. Shen Haoyu, senior vice-president of Baidu, said the Chinese search engine already has a partnership with Microsoft's Bing search engine in China, without elaborating.

Chinese media reported on Thursday that Baidu will take over the paid ads on Bing China, and Bing will provide English language results for Baidu.