Baidu Inc

Baidu, which by most measure has over 70% of the China search engine market, announced that its profits doubled in the second quarter.

At least one analyst sees the stock price for Baidu, China's largest search engine, hitting $1,000 based on its stellar first-quarter earnings and net income growth of 165%. Part of that growth came at the expense of Google, which withdrew from mainland China in protest of that country's censorship policies.

It's crunch time for Google, and investors on Monday were ever so slightly betting it'll pull its search engine out of China, at least according to premarket trading.

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As stunning as Google's threat to shut down its operations in China may be, its business in the Middle Kingdom means almost nothing to the company's bottom line. And while Baidu may win in the long run, its shares look mighty rich after today's run up.

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