Tag: "Alibaba"
An Introduction to CNZZ Web Analytics in China
About a month ago Alibaba bought CNZZ and brought this China grass root web analytics tool to the attention of the public. Its popularity among Chinese webmasters may make outsiders wonder how great it can be compared with Google Analytics, which is free and popular too. IP & Page View Oriented Starting from its birth, [...]
Competition with Baidu Heats Up after Alibaba Buys Web Analytics Provider CNZZ
On May 4th, Alibaba acquired China Web Analytics provider CNZZ, a fast growing web analytics tool provider based in China. Considering Google bought Urchin in 2005 and Baidu launched its own web analytics tool called Baidu Tongji in 2007, it’s not a surprise for Alibaba to do so. Although Alibaba’s Taobao has Quantum Statistics (量子统计) [...]
Etao Open Search Indexes Dangdang, 360Buy and Vancl
As my colleague Richard wrote about some time ago, Etao is a relatively new e-commerce search engine in China which has been launched by Taobao. Many people will know that Alibaba also owns Taobao which is a straight e-commerce site like Ebay. In November 2010, Etao launched its Open Search Beta service by integrating other [...]
More ‘Me Too’ Search Engines in China?
Cuil, the much touted search engine set up with such hope in 2008, finally gave up the fight and shut down its servers on September 17, 2010. At its inception, Cuil looked pretty good on paper. The VCs thought so too, investing $33 million in the company. The broad experience of the management team, which [...]
