Taobao shielding search engine to suppress Baidu c2c

September 8 afternoon, Taobao announced the introduction of the latest consumer protection program, including "partial shielding search engines, to prevent unscrupulous business fraud." "This is Taobao on the recent part of the netizen reflects Taobao through technical means to prohibit Baidu spiders to get Taobao sellers of the Web page information for the first time." Outsiders believe that shielding events and Baidu will launch c2c business.

August 23, Baidu Open c2c of the beta application, to provide no more than 10,000 closed-beta quota. This is considered to be a direct challenge to Taobao.

Last weekend, there are netizens found that access to www.taobao.com/robots.txt, the root of the Taobao station robots.txt file set up to intercept Baidu Spider (baiduspider) "disallow:/" command, That is, Baidu spiders are forbidden to obtain information on Taobao Web page.

Yesterday, Taobao responded that this is to "part of the shielding search engine, to eliminate unscrupulous business fraud." "Daily economic news" reporter did a test, in Baidu to enter a Taobao seller's user name, designated in the Taobao user login page to search, display results for 0 related pages; but in Google, search and other places, but can find the user's Taobao credit rating. Visible Taobao search engines such as Google did not take and Baidu the same shielding measures.

Taobao said, online shopping, there are some bad merchants through technical or commercial means to optimize the results of General search page, get a higher ranking cheat consumers click. "Through the different degree of screening of different search engines, we can eliminate unscrupulous businesses to use bidding rankings, search optimization and other means to cheat consumers trust." "As we all know, Baidu is the country's largest bidding rankings of the site." Taobao this statement is pointing to Baidu, it goes without saying.

However, for this question, Taobao said that some of the shielding Taobao has been doing, this is only a coincidence of time. As of press time, Baidu has not yet to make a positive response.