Comment on Alibaba’s Shopping Search Etao Taps into Online Travel Sector by Chinese E-commerce Giant JD Launches Travel Channel, Targeting at Mid and High-end Market | Kungpao.tv

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Etao, the shopping search service under Alibaba Group, announced today to make inroads to online travel search, starting with a hotel search service. It sounds like a direct competition to Qunar, the online travel search majority-owned by Baidu. Hotel.etao.com has indexed 300 thousand entries of hotel information from Ctrip and other five less-known online travel services. With Etao, Alibaba has stepped further into the search sector. So Alibaba is to a large extent a search business in terms profits.