Egads, who knew there was "terrorism" in the land of Taobao? Apparently, some sellers, mad at new rules that Taobao says makes it harder to fake reviews but they contend is biased against smaller stores, have taken to messing with the system. more ›

Our favorite method of buying things online now has its own search engine, and is it just us or does it remind you of Google? As of yet, it only searches for things on Taobao, but apparently it'll include organic searches with "bid-ranked positions." The company said it created the search engine, and blocked search results to Baidu, Google and Yahoo in an attempt to eliminate fraud. Personally, we can't see how it's much different from just searching things on the regular site, but we're intrigued by the fact that it may be offered on mobile phones as well. Buying things on the go? Egads, that sounds dangerous... for our wallets. more ›

Taobao - the place where you can buy everything... even, it seems, babies. An anonymous seller put an infant up for sale on the online auction site yesterday for the low price of 1RMB. Of no surprise to anyone who's read of unwanted babies in China - this one was a girl. more ›

Imagine this scenario: You're having a party and you realize the morning of that the one thing that would elevate your party from awesome to super duper fantabulous is... fake mustaches. So you go on Taobao to try and order some... only to realize that if you wanted it delivered today, you should've come up with this idea two days ago. more ›