Should the net purchase price information should be crawled?

Should the net purchase price information should be crawled?

Washington (reporter Xue) yesterday, Jingdong Mall and Alibaba's one Amoy net again because of parity and wipe out the "spark", Jingdong Mall in their own website set up a section of interference code, to prevent users through a Amoy network of the comparison of the client software Ruyi Amoy to compare. To this, a Amoy network issued a notice said, "Jingdong Mall's move not only damaged the Ruyi Amoy client software normal parity function, damaged the normal operation of Amoy, but also deprived the vast number of consumers understand the basic interests of commodity price information." "Jingdong Mall, said, refusing to cooperate with Alibaba Group, because it is difficult to guarantee the fairness of the data as a competitor of the company.

Amoy Net:

Beijing East violates industry principles

Yesterday, Alibaba's shopping search a Amoy Network Official bulletin said, starting from 24th, many users said that the software to visit Jingdong Mall can not start normally, and access to other sites when the function is normal. After the investigation found that Jingdong Mall in the page style file added to the Ruyi Amoy software interference code, resulting in users can not normal parity.

Ruyi Amoy is a comparison software, at the end of last year was shopping search a Amoy net acquisition. Ruyi Amoy Director Wang Jie said, "Jingdong Mall so do not respect users, but also violate the industry open, transparent principle." "He said the company is urgently repairing the function, and the new version is expected to be online in nearly two days."

Before the 8 15 "price war" period, "price war" attracted a large number of users eyeball, many netizens in front of the shopping initiative to download comparison software for multiple stations. There is analysis that the Jingdong mall does not want to see a large number of users due to the loss of price, it will be shielded wishful search.

Mall：

It's a piece of data fairness

However, Jingdong Mall yesterday to the newspaper issued a statement that the company has been in an open attitude, and Baidu, NetEase Youdao shopping, easy view, 360 shopping and many other independent third-party data research companies to maintain cooperation. However, Beijing East refused to cooperate with Alibaba Group, because it is difficult to ensure the fairness of the data as a competitor.

Jingdong Mall statement, for a Amoy previously released all the relevant data is not the official data provided by the company, and the Beijing-East has been shielding a Amoy to the Beijing-East data crawl. Jingdong declined to comment on its data sources, but legally reserved the right to seek clarification on untrue or inaccurate disclosure of data involving Jingdong.

Industry disputes:

Should the price be crawled?

Amoy NET using search technology to the Jingdong Mall commodity prices crawl, in the end is not an unfair competition? There is still a lot of controversy in the industry.

From the case, July 5, 2011, Beijing's first Intermediate people's Court to make a final judgment, that love Help network in its Web site to display the public comment on the network and the introduction of the Merchant is a kind of unfair competition behavior, constitute to the mass comment network substantive substitution. Therefore, Jingdong Mall has refused a Amoy net crawl its user evaluation, but now it is difficult to refuse to its price crawl, because the price itself is a public information.

It is argued that content providers should be allowed to refuse to crawl even if the content is not protected by copyright law. Although the price of a Amoy net is good for consumers, but the lowest prices are not necessarily in line with the interests of consumers. In addition, Taobao also operates electric business platform, is Jingdong Mall's competitors, Taobao should also be transparent to the rules of parity, to do a fair and objective third party.

Yesterday, Alibaba board Chairman Ma Yun wrote that the vicious price war will seriously hurt the interests of consumers.