Tag: "Taobao"
Major eCommerce Sites Have Blocked the eTao Spider – Why and What Next
Recently, major China eCommerce sites; at the beginning 360Buy, then Dangdang and Suning have blocked the eTao spider from crawling and indexing their websites. eTao is the eCommerce product search engine owned by Taobao, China’s largest eCommerce site. It’s big news but no surprise to see. To me there are two obvious reasons for this. [...]
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 [...]
