Taobao Improves Product Search Interface

Taobao has just updated its product search capability. You will see it on the homepage.
In September, Taobao banned Baidu’s search spider to access its content. Apparently it believes an in-site search will be more beneficial to its users.
The new search box looks very like a search engine. It has tabs which let you focus your [...]

COO of Taobao Talked About How Taobao Tackles E-Commerce Challenges in China

Zhang Yong, COO of Taobao.com, talked about the general market environment of online shopping in China, business of Taobao, its challenges and strategies in an interview with Knowledge@Wharton website.
According to Zhang,
After five years of development, [Taobao's] trading volume had reached RMB 43.3 billion (US$5.6 billion) in 2007. For the first half of this [...]

Taobao Launches Collaborative Recommendation

Taobao, the biggest C2C/B2C service of China, has just launched personal portal called iTaobao. If you have added any friends in Taobao, you will be able to have a glance of their latest favorite goods.
What it really does is to recommend goods and stores to users according to their browsing and purchasing history. [...]

The Coming War Between Baidu and Taobao

It is inevitable that there will be a war between Baidu C2C service and Alibaba’s Taobao when Baidu announced its C2C plan in last year. Taobao is dominating the C2C market in China, even after Tencent’s Paipai entered this market. But this time, Taobao’s rival is Baidu, which is dominating search market in China, and [...]

Baidu To Launch Online Payment Service and C2C Platform Soon

When Baidu announced its C2C ecommerce platform in last year, many people were speculating whether Baidu will develop its own online payment service or use/acquire an existing one in the market. Now it turns out that Baidu will develop one. Its online payment service, Baifubao, will be launched soon. So does its C2C platform, which [...]

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