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Robin Li, chief executive officer of Baidu Inc., attends a news conference in Beijing, China, March 11, 2015. [Photo/CFP]

Camera can lie, too

It's claimed that photographs tell the story best. But sometimes they don't.

Robin Li, chairman and CEO of search engine Baidu, was caught by a camera looking at a female interpreter sitting beside him at a press conference during the Third Session of the 12th National Committee of the CPPCC in Beijing on March 11.

The way he looked at her triggered an online brainstorm of what lay behind such a look.

"I know that interpreter, her name is Google," said a microblogger named Mianchaodahai alice in an apparent reference to the Chinese search engine's boss trying to have a competition with Google.

Another Internet user yangougou said: "(The look) proves again that 'camera can tell a story but not the full picture'."

Snapshots of celebrities usually fail to tell the whole truth.

In 2009, US president Barack Obama raised eyebrows when he was caught looking at the bottom of a Brazilian woman during the G8 summit in L'Aquila, Italy.

The controversy was finally laid to rest when a video confirmed that Obama was only helping a lady walk down the steps.