Sep 10
Is it an act of committing suicide?!
Taobao.com officially blocks Baidu indexing her pages. The embargo news came yesterday took TG a surprise. Given that Baidu (百度) is China number one search engine, it has a big pool of internet users in China and covers most of the web presence, blocking its service is like cutting off blood vessels supplying nutrition and oxygen to your body. Will Taobao be survived without blood flowing through her liver, heart and the other part of her body?
What happen after the news came out in Baidu (百度) search engine? TG input keyword “Taobao” and checked the result from Baidu (百度) SERP, it still displays 11,100,000 pages, keyword “Taobao.com” only display one result.
There’s no doubt that a business decision has been made since Baidu (百度) directs her challenge to Taobao’s core business line: Consumer to Consumer eCommerce model by launching her own C2C platform lately. Taobao did a merger with Alimama as part of her strategy to fend off potential competitors.
Living in Hong Kong, shop owners always look for shops close to Mass Transit Railway (MTR) for convenience, for high traffic and turnover. If the store is not selling rare, unique items or providing outstanding services, shop owners will not take risk of moving too remote from high traffic area.
Will the forbidden city “Taobao.com” be able to draw traffic from somewhere else? TG is very interested in seeing it.
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written by TG
\\ tags: Baidu, C2C, Search, Taobao.com, Taoboa, 百度
Jul 27
Taobao.com (81.5%), Dangdang.com (16.6%) , Joyo.com (13.6%) are by far the largest market shareholders in China C2C marketplace. The findings was revealed by China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) recent survey, which covered 19 key cities in China for the first six months of 2008.
CNNIC conceived that Taobao.com was still taking the lead in the market and would not be replaced by its competitors in a short time.
On the whole, the user penetration rate of Taobao.com was higher than that of the website ranking the second by nearly 65%. Taobao.com has formed certain scale effect and it is very difficulty for its first place ranking to be surpassed by another website in a short time.
At the five-year anniverary ceremony, Alibaba (1688) group’s Chairman and Non-Executive Director Jack Ma stated that the China internet company had planned to invest RMB 2 billion in the next five year.
The huge amount is the third and largest investment from Alibaba (1688) since the establishment of Taobao.com, far exceeding the 1.45 billion yuan it received from its parent starting from 2003.
Taobao.com is currently the nation’s dominant online retailer with 67 million registered accounts. About 10 million customers visit Taobao daily.
In the meantime, Joyo.com is picking up its speed and has reached the top ranking in B2C marketplace. Joyo.com was owned by Amazon.com
written by Aliuser
\\ tags: Alibaba, China Internet, CNNIC, Joyo.com, Taobao.com
Jun 25
It’s definitely one of the most amusing posts I have so far. Shao lin Temple (少林寺) initiates a series of steps from product development to selling slippers, teas, T-shirts and even kung fu secret lessons so as to make foray into online business.
The storefront, which calls itself Shaolin The Stage of Joy (少林欢喜地) is established in Taobao.com on May 22nd, 2008. The eCommerce conceptualization comes from the Shao Lin Temple’s focus on zen mediation life style. The store sells a selection of merchandising items including candle holders, notebooks, budda portrait and Shaolin clothing designed for zen training.
TG would like to buy a couple of Shaolin’s best kept secret kung fu booklets - ( 少林武功医宗秘笈书功夫武术医学医科宗教佛教健身 ) so that I can play the role of Stephen Chow (周星馳) in his KungFu movie or I can be the begger who sells Kung Fu booklets to kids who dream to be Stephen, either way works for me!!
written by TG
\\ tags: B2C marketplaces, eCommerce, Taobao.com