Comments on: Bǎidù: Valuations and Verse http://toshuo.com/2005/baidu-valuations-and-verse/ Chinese, Linguistics, Science, Cultural Observations and whatever else I feel like writing about Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:12:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Greedy Superficial Bloggers Obsess Over SEO | Doubting to shuō: Chinese, Investing, EFL and Being a Geek in Taiwan http://toshuo.com/2005/baidu-valuations-and-verse/#comment-42944 Greedy Superficial Bloggers Obsess Over SEO | Doubting to shuō: Chinese, Investing, EFL and Being a Geek in Taiwan Fri, 06 Apr 2007 19:02:09 +0000 http://www.toshuo.com/wordpress/?p=5#comment-42944 [...] all fairness, I’m pretty interested in Baidu, and I’ve written before aboutthe poem Baidu’s name came and their financials. On the other hand, I’m not really interested in changing my site to make it rank higher on [...] [...] all fairness, I’m pretty interested in Baidu, and I’ve written before aboutthe poem Baidu’s name came and their financials. On the other hand, I’m not really interested in changing my site to make it rank higher on [...]

]]> By: Prince Roy http://toshuo.com/2005/baidu-valuations-and-verse/#comment-12 Prince Roy Fri, 21 Oct 2005 03:57:00 +0000 http://www.toshuo.com/wordpress/?p=5#comment-12 Hey I saw your comment on Sinosplice. It's amazing you stumbled on me. Are you in Taiwan now? (I haven't read your blog yet). That's going to be my next assignment. I should get there sometime next summer. Am so looking forward to it. Hey I saw your comment on Sinosplice. It’s amazing you stumbled on me. Are you in Taiwan now? (I haven’t read your blog yet). That’s going to be my next assignment. I should get there sometime next summer. Am so looking forward to it.

]]> By: Mark http://toshuo.com/2005/baidu-valuations-and-verse/#comment-13 Mark Thu, 20 Oct 2005 16:35:00 +0000 http://www.toshuo.com/wordpress/?p=5#comment-13 Oh, my blog's only been up for a couple of weeks. There isn't much to read, yet.<br /><br />If you make it out here, I'd be glad to buy you a drink and catch up! I read your book review of the <i>Integrated Chinese</i> texts on John's page, and I noticed you said you used to teach at CU. So naturally, I followed the link to your page, and there you were. Taiwan is where you first studied Chinese, right? Oh, my blog’s only been up for a couple of weeks. There isn’t much to read, yet.

If you make it out here, I’d be glad to buy you a drink and catch up! I read your book review of the Integrated Chinese texts on John’s page, and I noticed you said you used to teach at CU. So naturally, I followed the link to your page, and there you were. Taiwan is where you first studied Chinese, right?

]]> By: James http://toshuo.com/2005/baidu-valuations-and-verse/#comment-11 James Wed, 19 Oct 2005 23:43:00 +0000 http://www.toshuo.com/wordpress/?p=5#comment-11 That's right, my man. Your analysis is <BR/>is on the money! Baidu?<BR/><BR/><BR/>**puts on his best Butthead face**<BR/>Uhhh..huhhuh, Buy-dude!<BR/><BR/>Yeah! Yeah! Buy, dude! Buy, dude! Heeh-he-ha-hur-he-hum! I am the great ...<BR/><BR/>Seriously, though, stocks like this are "over-valued" all the way up. If you look at MS in 1985, it was "over-valued". And it stayed that way all the way up. The same is true of Amazon, and Ebay. While I wouldn't have wanted to buy them at their speculative peaks 5 years ago, both were very expensive by traditional metrics for years after becoming profitable. <BR/><BR/>I had no idea that Baidu was drove as much traffic as it does. Right now with so many huge companies taking off in China, guys like you who can read the news in Chinese have a huge advantage over other growth investors. That’s right, my man. Your analysis is
is on the money! Baidu?

**puts on his best Butthead face**
Uhhh..huhhuh, Buy-dude!

Yeah! Yeah! Buy, dude! Buy, dude! Heeh-he-ha-hur-he-hum! I am the great …

Seriously, though, stocks like this are “over-valued” all the way up. If you look at MS in 1985, it was “over-valued”. And it stayed that way all the way up. The same is true of Amazon, and Ebay. While I wouldn’t have wanted to buy them at their speculative peaks 5 years ago, both were very expensive by traditional metrics for years after becoming profitable.

I had no idea that Baidu was drove as much traffic as it does. Right now with so many huge companies taking off in China, guys like you who can read the news in Chinese have a huge advantage over other growth investors.

]]> By: Taiwanonymous http://toshuo.com/2005/baidu-valuations-and-verse/#comment-10 Taiwanonymous Wed, 19 Oct 2005 16:15:00 +0000 http://www.toshuo.com/wordpress/?p=5#comment-10 Good point about Baidu.<BR/><BR/>I found this translation: "hundreds and thousands of times, for her I searched in chaos, suddenly, I turned by chance, to where the lights were waning, and there she stood."<BR/><BR/>Just what I hate about search engines. Searching for hours for some simple information. (The payoff for all the searching is never as good as good as in the poem.) Good point about Baidu.

I found this translation: “hundreds and thousands of times, for her I searched in chaos, suddenly, I turned by chance, to where the lights were waning, and there she stood.”

Just what I hate about search engines. Searching for hours for some simple information. (The payoff for all the searching is never as good as good as in the poem.)

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