As the overwhelmingly dominant search engine in China, Baidu's American depositary shares allow investors to tap into the fastest growing major economy in the world.
The Street continues to back away from shares of Baidu, the leading player in the China Internet search market, out of concern that the company is losing market share to new entrant Qihoo 360.
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The latter trains computer scientists for the Chinese military and is reported to have ties to Baidu, the dominant search engine in China.
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Robin Li has produced stellar growth at Chinese search engine Baidu in the past year.
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Just three years ago, most Chinese startups were unheard of in the West, aside from search engine Baidu and online trading marketplace Alibaba, which were among the earlier wave of Internet startups to make a splash with successful public trading debuts.
Take Baidu, the dominant search engine in China.
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In China, search engine behemoth Baidu (BIDU) is still a buy after taking some lumps late in the year.
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Baidu is the leading online search provider in China and it derives around 60% of its revenues from search advertising.
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In fact, local companies (like Baidu) own the Chinese search market!
Other new-economy stars, such as Lenovo Group, Tencent Holdings and search-engine Baidu, are already in the second 500 of our list.
The Baidu partnership could come in handy for Dell as the Chinese search giant itself is making a push into the mobile search market.
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As of early 2012, Baidu had approximately 35% market share in the Chinese mobile search market, substantially lower than its 80% share in PCs and desktops.
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Baidu has a market share of around 80% in the Chinese search market.
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The labels reached a similar agreement with search engine Baidu in 2011.
With Google fading from the search picture in China, it leaves further room for Baidu to establish a strangle-hold on market share.
Mr Perret said France Telecom had partnered with Baidu because the search firm had helped mobile networks in in its home market of China cope with a similar switch from basic mobiles to low-end smartphones.
Baidu has a lower market share (35%) in the mobile search market.
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Earlier this week, consulting firm Marbridge in Beijing said that Baidu was toying with the idea of buying an English language search engine.
Baidu , the Chinese Web search provider, posted strong earnings in its latest quarter, doubling net income in only 12 months as it continued to add online marketing customers.
Baidu's dominance of China's search market has grown in the wake of Google Inc.
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The leading search engine in China's fast-growing search market, Beijing-based Baidu.com, has also behaved more controversially than Google on several fronts.
Baidu has faced growing competition in its core search business from Qihoo, putting pressure the profitability of its once high-flying main profit engine.
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The leading search engine in China's fast-growing search market, Beijing-based Baidu.com (nasdaq: BIDU - news - people ), has also behaved more controversially than Google on several fronts.
As a provider of a popular Web browser, Qihoo was well positioned for a rapid takeoff in the search sector, and in fact appears to be causing considerable trouble for sector leader Baidu.
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Meng says that the shift of some Internet search traffic to Qihoo from Baidu is likely to result in Baidu missing current Street profit and revenue estimates for the fourth quarter and beyond.
Motorola prevailed by asking Chinese Web company Baidu to be the default search engine on its phones, but could get caught in a second round of intrigue if Google exits the Chinese market completely, as it has threatened.
Baidu commands more than 80% of the Chinese search market, according to iResearch based in Beijing, but has yet to launch its search service internationally.
The bigger story about Baidu is its new international strategy where the Chinese search giant is looking to square up to Google in mobile.
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That bodes well from a competition standpoint for names like SINA Corporation (SINA) and even Baidu (BIDU), the Chinese search engine behemoth, but not for matters of free speech in Chinese cyberspace.
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