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Baidu's revenues are on fire.... Those who said that with the departure of Google we would be seeing some bullish numbers coming out of Baidu were right... really right. This week, Baidu Inc. announced that they posted a 76.4% revenue increase for the third quarter ended September 30, 2010.

Total revenues in the third quarter of 2010 were CNY2.256 billion, a whopping 76.4% increase from the corresponding period in 2009. Net income in the third quarter of 2010 was CNY1.047 billion, a 112.4% increase (i bow my head low with respect and admiration at this achievement) from the corresponding period in 2009. Now thats a great quarter and one that surely must have people in the West sitting up and asking how this can be happening and happening so fast.

In China, downloading free music is easy. You can just go to Baidu or top100.cn and take your pick. But for those outside China finding free music sites to download music can be somewhat challenging, especially if someone does not know exactly what to look for. This post is not intend to promote illegal downloads of music- this is an educational piece on the use of Google search operators.

I attended a presentation from David Smith this morning at the iMedia Agency Summit where he spoke on the topic of metrics in Social Media and New Media.  He was a well spoken presenter but I felt his topic positioning was way to America centric, too general and simply not suited for an audience of Asian based digital marketers (I maybe alone in my assessment so take this with a grain of salt). That said, David did touch on the area dear to my heart. That being real-time search.