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China's Ecommerce Sites Block Search Engine Crawlers

Apparently, Alibaba and 360buy have begun to block ecommerce search engines from crawling pages and indexing content. As an example, Doug Herman points to ChinaStock.com, a Chinese consumer shopping Web site that blocked eTao, a ecommerce search engine, from crawling its pages. The linked-to article suggests the roadblock is likely the result of a "sharp drop of 360buy’s traffic." Alibaba also blocks Baidu from crawling its Taobao and Tmall e-commerce sites.

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