Comments on: EBay to MSFT, Yahoo: Let's Circle the Wagons Against dem Google Injuns

By: V.Piras

V.Piras — Sun, 23 Apr 2006 19:49:47 +0000

>>Yahoo started Yahoo Auctions and I don't think eBay had a problem with that.

Thats right because the most vivitors come over googles search .
How it looks, when ebay is kicked out the google index ? Ebay is using massive keyword stuffing and more seo-optimizations against the guideline of google.

By: Jeffrey McManus

Jeffrey McManus — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 23:12:17 +0000

To Google, eBay is a large customer first, and a competitor a distant second.

By: SorenG

SorenG — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 17:38:18 +0000

I remember reading that some years back, when Meg Whitman got on board, eBay explored selling itself to Yahoo and AOL. For various reasons, they could not work out a deal. Seems to me that a Yahoo/eBay merge or partnership is more likely. It must be quite a wake-up call for eBay, as I think they were initially big fans of Google (and used them much more than MSFT or Yahoo). Now, there one "friend" may turn out to be a foe.

Is the problem that Google is just too damn aggressive and hungry, or is it that they are too successful? Yahoo started Yahoo Auctions and I don't think eBay had a problem with that. So it may be true that with success too often comes fewer and fewer friends. With the likes of Yahoo, MSFT, and eBay teaming up . . . that is quite a powerful force. Maybe it is eBay's way of saying, "Be careful not to get too close to our turf, or we will gather others to take you on."

By: Brock

Brock — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 17:35:37 +0000

Ooh, I hope one of these companies takes E*bay up on the offer. That way Google will have one less competitor to worry about. The management that brought up the Skype buy-out and the inability to see Google Payments from a mile away could knock YHOO or MSFT right out of the running.