Comments on: Alimama, Taobao Merger Points To E-commerce, Search Battle

By: Baidu’s Problems: The Other Side of the Equation | The China Vortex

Baidu’s Problems: The Other Side of the Equation | The China Vortex — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 03:19:59 +0000

[...] Ultimately, it depends on Robin Li, Baidu’s CEO, and how he chooses to handle Baidu’s salesforce, who have aggressively brought in the bacon so that Baidu would look good for its investors and Wall St. The big question for Robin Li is: “How can he reign in his salesforce just when he needs them the most?” The Baidu salesforce is the main differentiator for the Baidu; it has been able to sell keywords to China’s SMEs, getting it far greater penetration than Google in the Chinese tier 2 and 3 cities and in the countryside. Can you imagine Robin calling in his salesforce and telling them to do business and background checks on customers? That would be a very good way to get your salesforce to rebel in a split-second! Can he afford such a rebellion just when global economies and markets are tanking and Chinese are cutting back on spending, and when Baidu is expanding aggressively into e-commerce and other fields? [...]

By: Baidu Advertising

Baidu Advertising — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:31:51 +0000

Great post. At first the merger of Alimama and Taobao into a single company seemed odd to me (imagine an Ebay and Adsense merger), but when a third party search engine enters the picture this actually makes sense. I think Baidu has the capabilities to become a formidable competitor to Alibaba, they are also homegrown and if they have been able to surpass Google, which Microsoft or Yahoo were unable to do, then they must be making something right.

By: 168.fr » Blog Archive » Baidu vs Alibaba : La guerre des géants Chinois du net.

Sun, 21 Sep 2008 18:47:52 +0000

[...] Cette fois-ci la guerre est sino-chinoise, le champ de bataille se situe en Chine et le domaine est l’e-commerce. Tout à commencé lorsque Baidu a annoncé sa venu dans l’e-commerce. S’est suivi par son messagerie instantanée BaiduHi et maintenant par la venue de baifubao, le paypal de Baidu. Quand à Alibaba, il a déjà ses plateformes de commerce en ligne (taobao) et son système de payement (paypay). Sentant la menace arriver à grand pas, il a récemment fermé la porte de taobao aux robots de Baidu. Il a même annoncé le mariage d’alimama (le google adsence d’alibaba) et de taobao. [...]