Youa.com, the ecommerce site of Baidu, announced an “Ark Plan”, which aims to build up standardized products database for online shopping.
The purpose of the Ark Plan is to build an unified and structured products database, which include all the information needed when a buyer go shopping online, such as the specification of the product, price info, users’ reviews, related products and etc. The information can be used by sellers on Youa.com, then they don’t need to bother to input basic information of products. On the other hand, after the implementation of the database, sellers on Youa.com cannot list products which are not included in the database.
The product database of mobile phone is online already, for example, this is the product page for Nokia N97.
According to Baidu, the Ark Plan will be an open project, and collaborated by Youa.com, B2C ecommerce sites and some information portals. But we don’t know so far whether the database is open to third-parties through open API.
Monday, August 17, 2009
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Baidu launch C2C e-commerce platform,youa.com
Baidu is getting in the consumer-to-consumer (C2C) game (think eBay or indie sellers on Amazon.com) with a new site, Youa.com.
In the beginning, 10,000 sellers were chosen from over 100,000 applicants. 50,000 customers were chosen from Baidu's online communities.
"Baidu Youa continues Baidu's tradition of providing the best possible online experience for our users," said Mr. Jun Yu, Baidu's vice president of products. "This new C2C platform provides user-friendly shopping with emphasis on customer service." Mr. Yu continued, "Our expansion into China's early- stage e-commerce market is a natural move for Baidu as Chinese netizens are becoming more comfortable shopping online. With our vast user community, technological expertise, mature product offering and deep understanding of Chinese Internet landscape, we believe that we have a competitive edge in China's C2C arena and look forward to taking full advantage of the growth potential of this sector of the Internet."
source:searchenginewatch
In the beginning, 10,000 sellers were chosen from over 100,000 applicants. 50,000 customers were chosen from Baidu's online communities.
"Baidu Youa continues Baidu's tradition of providing the best possible online experience for our users," said Mr. Jun Yu, Baidu's vice president of products. "This new C2C platform provides user-friendly shopping with emphasis on customer service." Mr. Yu continued, "Our expansion into China's early- stage e-commerce market is a natural move for Baidu as Chinese netizens are becoming more comfortable shopping online. With our vast user community, technological expertise, mature product offering and deep understanding of Chinese Internet landscape, we believe that we have a competitive edge in China's C2C arena and look forward to taking full advantage of the growth potential of this sector of the Internet."
source:searchenginewatch
Friday, October 10, 2008
Baidu's named it C2C platform "youa"
Baidu's announcement yesterday that the network trading platform, known as the "youa" (youa.com), which entered the official opening of the countdown stage.
It is reported that Baidu's Internet trading platform for the first batch of 10,000 sellers have been settled and began to upload goods, shop decoration and so on before the opening of the preparatory work. Baidu for businesses to provide a "moving software", in the goods within 5 minutes of data from the old platform to a new copy shop, a move to attract Taobao seller's intention is very clear.
The industry believes that the "Baidu" and "youa" together time "Baidu has ," echoed from the Baidu search engine to the e-commerce, news, finance, entertainment and other fields of strategic attack on all fronts.
It is reported that Baidu's Internet trading platform for the first batch of 10,000 sellers have been settled and began to upload goods, shop decoration and so on before the opening of the preparatory work. Baidu for businesses to provide a "moving software", in the goods within 5 minutes of data from the old platform to a new copy shop, a move to attract Taobao seller's intention is very clear.
The industry believes that the "Baidu" and "youa" together time "Baidu has ," echoed from the Baidu search engine to the e-commerce, news, finance, entertainment and other fields of strategic attack on all fronts.
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
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 is under private pilot test already.
China’s online payment market is dominated by Alipay, under Alibaba Group. According to iResearch, in second quarter of this year, Alipay took about 51% share of online payment market in China, followed by Tenpay, an online payment service by Tencent, China UnionPay’s online payment service and 99Bill.
According to Alipay, by May 2008, the register users of Alipay has exceeded 80 million with over RMB 350 million daily transaction volume and 1.5 million daily transactions. Besides merchants on Taobao and Alibaba, there are over 460,000 e-commerce merchants are using Alipay on their sites. On August, Alipay officially launched the WAP version, allowing you to make transaction on your phone.
Instead of just serving China market, Alipay also starts its internationalization strategy, it partnered with Paymate, an Australian online payment company, to launch Haiwaibao.com, which allows Chinese consumers to do shopping directly on websites in Australia that support Paymate. It also partnered with Philliou Selwanes Partners (PSP) for Northern American market entry, among other international partnership.
With such a strong competitor in both C2C and online payment market in China, whether Baidu can take advantage of its broad user base and popular search and community-related service to gain significant market share quickly is still uncertain.
source: china web 2.0 review
China’s online payment market is dominated by Alipay, under Alibaba Group. According to iResearch, in second quarter of this year, Alipay took about 51% share of online payment market in China, followed by Tenpay, an online payment service by Tencent, China UnionPay’s online payment service and 99Bill.
According to Alipay, by May 2008, the register users of Alipay has exceeded 80 million with over RMB 350 million daily transaction volume and 1.5 million daily transactions. Besides merchants on Taobao and Alibaba, there are over 460,000 e-commerce merchants are using Alipay on their sites. On August, Alipay officially launched the WAP version, allowing you to make transaction on your phone.
Instead of just serving China market, Alipay also starts its internationalization strategy, it partnered with Paymate, an Australian online payment company, to launch Haiwaibao.com, which allows Chinese consumers to do shopping directly on websites in Australia that support Paymate. It also partnered with Philliou Selwanes Partners (PSP) for Northern American market entry, among other international partnership.
With such a strong competitor in both C2C and online payment market in China, whether Baidu can take advantage of its broad user base and popular search and community-related service to gain significant market share quickly is still uncertain.
source: china web 2.0 review
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Taobao Blocks Baidu, Google, Yahoo Search Engines In China
Chinese online auction and e-commerce website Taobao.com has recently announced its latest consumer protection plan, which includes blocking the search engines of Baidu, Google and Yahoo.
According to local media, Taobao.com completely blocked the search engine of Baidu and it also partly blocks that of Google and Yahoo. Taobao.com says that the blocks of search engines aim to eliminate fraud caused by ill-intentioned merchants. Through different blocking degrees over different search engines, it can prevent consumers from being cheated by illegal merchants who gain consumers trust by pay per click and search optimization techniques.
Statistics offered by Taobao.com show that at present, over 80% of consumers complaints are caused by a small number of unscrupulous businesses. One of the main means of these frauds is to optimize the general search results pages through technical and commercial methods, so as to gain higher rankings and attract consumers to click their links and pages. Therefore, blocking some search engines can protect consumers from being deceived.
Apart from blocking search engines, the consumer protection plan for Taobao.com also includes other measures such as a 30-day warranty for digital and appliances products, assurance for antique and jewelry products, certificate check for food products, and appreciation for luxury goods.
Taobao.com is owned by Alibaba Group in China.
Source:chinatechnews
According to local media, Taobao.com completely blocked the search engine of Baidu and it also partly blocks that of Google and Yahoo. Taobao.com says that the blocks of search engines aim to eliminate fraud caused by ill-intentioned merchants. Through different blocking degrees over different search engines, it can prevent consumers from being cheated by illegal merchants who gain consumers trust by pay per click and search optimization techniques.
Statistics offered by Taobao.com show that at present, over 80% of consumers complaints are caused by a small number of unscrupulous businesses. One of the main means of these frauds is to optimize the general search results pages through technical and commercial methods, so as to gain higher rankings and attract consumers to click their links and pages. Therefore, blocking some search engines can protect consumers from being deceived.
Apart from blocking search engines, the consumer protection plan for Taobao.com also includes other measures such as a 30-day warranty for digital and appliances products, assurance for antique and jewelry products, certificate check for food products, and appreciation for luxury goods.
Taobao.com is owned by Alibaba Group in China.
Source:chinatechnews
Monday, September 8, 2008
Taobao.com Announces Open API Platform
After merging with Alimama.com, Taobao.com, the auction website of Alibaba Group, has formally announced plans to open its application programming interface platform and third-party developers are able to visit data of Taobao.com through various open interfaces from September 8, 2008.
With the opening of API as its core, this platform opening program of Taobao is named TOP: Taobao Open Platform. By this opening policy, developers and companies will be able to construct various e-commerce products and realize internal and external value-added applications based on the data and model of Taobao.com.
Jack Ma, chairman of the board of directors of Alibaba, told local media that the first goal for Taobao and Alibaba in the next ten years is to become the world's biggest e-commerce services supplier. He says the company believes that most companies will be online within ten years and Alibaba will offer services to help more entrepreneurs enter the e-commerce sector.
As an important step for Alibaba's Internet strategy, Taobao.com started to plan the Taobao Open Platform since 2007. Before that, the application developments of Alibaba's platforms, including Taobao.com, Alibaba.com and Alipay.com, were mainly supported by its Internet software subsidiary Alisoft.com.
At present, there are about ten Internet companies that have opened their platforms in China, including Taobao's rival eBay, who has hundreds of independent software vendors to provide applications for it.
Source:chinatechnews
With the opening of API as its core, this platform opening program of Taobao is named TOP: Taobao Open Platform. By this opening policy, developers and companies will be able to construct various e-commerce products and realize internal and external value-added applications based on the data and model of Taobao.com.
Jack Ma, chairman of the board of directors of Alibaba, told local media that the first goal for Taobao and Alibaba in the next ten years is to become the world's biggest e-commerce services supplier. He says the company believes that most companies will be online within ten years and Alibaba will offer services to help more entrepreneurs enter the e-commerce sector.
As an important step for Alibaba's Internet strategy, Taobao.com started to plan the Taobao Open Platform since 2007. Before that, the application developments of Alibaba's platforms, including Taobao.com, Alibaba.com and Alipay.com, were mainly supported by its Internet software subsidiary Alisoft.com.
At present, there are about ten Internet companies that have opened their platforms in China, including Taobao's rival eBay, who has hundreds of independent software vendors to provide applications for it.
Source:chinatechnews
Friday, September 5, 2008
Taobao has ban Baiduspider
http://www.taobao.com/robots.txt
User-agent: Baiduspider Disallow: / User-agent: baiduspider Disallow: /
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