Shockingly: The number of Taobao pages indexed by Baidu has officially dropped to zero.

September 19, 2008

site:www.taobao.com equals O, as evidenced by Figure 1.

site:taobao.com=1 (Taobao UED Team Blog), see Figure 2.

However, when you search for Taobao on Baidu, there is a link to Taobao's homepage. Does this reflect the human touch of Baidu? Or is it just a temporary oversight?

Baidu Index:

Taobao: 90,000

Taobao.com: 70,000

If you remove all instances of Taobao and search for Taobao on Baidu, you won't find taobao.com. Baidu confuses 160,000 Internet users daily!