Taobao's e-commerce search engine ETao announced today that between April and May, ETao saw average daily search volumes increase by more than 200%.

Wang Jieqi, a spokesperson for ETao's price comparison tool Ruyi Tao, said that installations of the tool surpassed 10 mln in May. There is an average of more than 3 mln active daily users of the tool, Wang said, a more than fivefold increase over the figure from two months prior.