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Baidu, Taobao scramble for users data
13Oct2008 Filed under: B2B marketplaces Author: TG
It seems Taobao’s decision to block Baidu (百度) searching and indexing its contents is not execessively rush. Baidu (百度) eventually released a tool for Baidu C2C’s users, which help its customers to export all items data from their shops on other C2C platform, of course, mainly from Taobao, and upload to Baidu’s platform.
According to Sina.com, the data migration only take several minutes. It significantly reduces the cost for a big seller to try Baidu’s platform. The sellers have built their sales records and credit points on Taobao for years, maybe Baidu (百度) will also acknowledge sellers’ credit points on Taobao, eBay Eachnet has tried to do similar things in early this year.
Taobao definitely feels the heat and its holding company, Alibaba Group, has immediately announced a RMB 5 billion investment plan over the next five years last week. It also decided to keep its services free to its users.
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