China search giant Baidu finds huge 57.5-percent rise in profits over 2012

Baidu is the dominant search engine in China, holding 79 percent of the total market in the fourth quarter last year, according to Beijing-based Internet consultancy Analysys International.

The company has benefited from U.S. search giant Google's decision to partially move out of the massive Chinese market in 2010 after a public spat with Beijing over censorship.

Baidu's profits reached US$1.68 billion last year, but profit growth slowed from 88.3 percent in 2011, Baidu said in a statement released late on Monday. Revenue jumped 53.8 percent to US$3.58 billion, it added.

“Baidu once again posted solid growth in 2012 amidst challenging macro conditions,” company chairman and chief executive officer Robin Li said in the statement.

Baidu's net profit for the fourth quarter of last year rose 36.1 percent year-on-year to US$448.7 million, while revenue for the three months jumped 41.6 percent from the same period in 2011 to US$1.02 billion.

The company said last September that it plans to invest more than 10 billion yuan (US$1.6 billion) in cloud computing to help profitability.

Baidu fell 1.30 percent to US$108.61 on the U.S. Nasdaq market on Monday.

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