Didja Know….Updated

…that eBay processes as many searches a month as Google (around 2 billion, they claim)? Yup, it’s true. For more, see this investor presentation, page 18 (pdf download). I met with Greg Isaacs late last week, and that was one of many fascinating things I learned. Greg runs the eBay Developer’s Program. I’ll have more to say about that at a future point…

UPDATE: A good source notes that Google is doing WAY MORE searches than eBay’s reported 2 billion a month. I tend to agree (the last reported number I heard from sources at Google was 250 million a day – and that was two years ago. That’d be – er – around 7.5 billion a month – again, two years ago). But given that Google refuses to disclose real numbers, this all remains in the realm of speculation…