Taobao Blocks Baidu's Crawler

On September 9, 2008, Taobao, China's top online market place and e-commerce site announced (Chinese) it will block out Baiduspider, Baidu's (China's largest search engine) crawler. There may be several reasons for this action, one may be a recent announcement (Chinese) by Baidu stating its intentions to enter the e-commerce market. Here are my thoughts:

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China Broadband Subscribers Increased by 1.8 Million in July

According to MIIT's latest statistics broadband subscribers this month increased by 1.82 million to reach 77.827 million. China Telecom's broadband subscribers increased by 0.8 million to reach 40.8 million and China Netcom's broadband subscribers increased by 0.6 million to reach 24 million according data release by China Telecom and China Netcom, respectively.

China Fixed-line Subscribers Drop by 1.2 Million in July

According to MIIT’s latest statistics, fixed-line subscribers dropped by 1.261 million in July. China Telecom’s fixed-line subscribers dropped by 0.6 million and China Netcom’s fixed-line subscribers dropped by 0.3 million.

China PHS Subscribers dropped by 0.8 Million in July

According to MIIT's latest statistics Personal Handset subscribers this month dropped 0.8 million to 77 million.

China Mobile Subscribers Increased by 7.2 Million in July

According to MIIT's latest statistics mobile subscribers this month increased by 7.621 to reach 608.378 million. China Mobile's subscribers increased by 5.1 million to reach 421.7 million and China Unicom's subscribers increased by 0.5 million to reach 171.3 according data release by China Mobile and China Unicom, respectively.

Approximately 401 billion SMS messages were sent this month.