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- DevlinD, on 10/12/2007, -1/+25Great...lets combine our powers of mass corporate bloatedness into one completely unmanageable SUPER BLOAT with no common goals except to beat Google and so we can move at an even slower pace in trying to match Google's innovation. Brilliant.
Man if I were Yahoo I wouldnt get within 100 miles of this disaster waiting to happen since they seem to be the only ones out of this trio that has still seen decent growth despite the recent Google onslaught.
eBay and MS are more or less in the same boat here as each companys' footholds in their respective markets still stem from their first mover advantage and not really from any recent incredible innovation..and that is why they are scared of Google. They just innovate too damn well and too damn fast for anyone to keep up.
But I think it is eBay that needs this alliance more than MS because if Google were to venture into the online auction market, they have enough parallel products that could be used in conjunction with this new service that would inevitably render eBay obsolete. eBay does not have the well rounded web expertise that Google does to be able to create an online auction service that would be as robust as this alleged new Google service, but MS does...well at least MS has more experience than eBay I would think. But all in all regardless of how many elite engineers they can combine on to one team the question still remains whether or not they would be able to turn that into something innovtive enough to actually beat Google. - info, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16Other way around... eBay needs Google...
Ever notice how much eBay advertising shows up on Google? eBay is a big Google customer.
Ditto for Microsoft!
It's no wonder Google keeps making more and more money.
Plain and simple: they are the "home page" of the Internet. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14I don't think Google needs eBay..........
- neurokaotix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12"Isn't google planning on a craigslist sort of thing? That would be in direct competition with eBay."
No, that would be in direct competition with Craigslist. - Duston, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Google doesn't need eBay, it wants to take their maket.
- markob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Google it preparing pay service, who knows what their intentions are...eBay-like service will surely follow sometime in the future.
- davidv, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Google is making a new paypal thing right? And paypal is part of ebay soo...
- KicktheDonkey, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10So why is eBay so worried about Google? Why not just partner with them?
- Durrok, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Microsoft dabbles in a lot more then just windows....
- angelwspr, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9poor ebay, worried about losing their monopoly. waaaaah!!!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Ebay folks must be sh1ttin bricks since Google base came out. It still has a way to go but I have no doubt that if google actually did come up with a web based auction application they would beat the sh1at out of ebay. For Heavens sake ebay still uses an applet in their category chooser. Hello Ajax anybody?
And yeah add microsoft to the mix and u definitely have a disaster waiting to happen.
One doubt i have though is whether google will actually want to get into the hassle of the auction business with user disputes and all that sh1at. - muddo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Then join forces with aol and myspace. Oh it will be a day of reckoning for all those wretched innovators.
- Phssthpok, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Bloat Bloat Bloat Bloat Bloat
Bloatity Bloat Bloater Bloaterstein
I hate when people say bloat.
I still like Google more than the others. They're not perfect. Kinda like the lesser of two evils. Apple sucks for going after bloggers but thank god they stop Microsoft from making all the music in the world WMA. Ebay I thought was smarter. Ummmmmm EBAY should take a look at the long string of companies that buddied up with Microsoft. Remember when IBM and Microsoft were partners!
HA SUCKERS Bend over and lube up! - shiftt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3have any of you read the article?
$400 million in marketing goes from eBay to Google every year
"eBay is also a large Google customer, with $400 million of its annual online-marketing budget going to Google, according to the WSJ article." - blackfrancis, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5@mrfoos
I think you meant the"liberal biased media" which IMHO is utter *****. If anything, the huge conglomerate media networks are conservative biased. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I used to work with a person with firm X. Her ideal workplace was where there are set rules for everything. Proper protocol meetings and all that stuff. More time spent on planning than actually doing stuff. the typical red taped bloated nature of companies which did great stuff b4 but are now just sitting on their current customer base doing practically nothing.
She got poached by Microsoft from Firm X for that work attitude. My immediate reaction was that if MSFT is looking for such kinda talent they are getting worse rather than trying to trim the fat. I seriously doubt that company is going to offer much in innovation to us anytime in the future.
Am sure its not easy to be innovative and make changes to a product that works already. But if u aint gonna do it u aint surviving.
Thats why I like google strategy of hiring. Get Talented and brilliant people first. Figure out where to put them later. - furtwan1, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Every day Google is looking more and more like the bloated giant that everyone seems to hate...yet the media still loves them so average-joe thinks they're sqeaky-clean
- MrLobster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I think google could do auctions. They really just need the sellers and eBay has been gouging sellers with exorbitant fees for both selling and collecting via PayPal. Google has a pretty good brand name that people trust so if anyone can start another auction site google can.
- Claw787, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Are they gonna start the "Internet World War 1"?
What's next? Bomb Google HQ?? - Phssthpok, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1[Even if google does enter it, people who have been using Ebay to sell stuff wont be leaving Ebay for awhile. I like Ebay, and I wont be switching anytime soon.]
Hellllooooo YAHOO?
I'm going to tell my Grandkids that there use to be a bunch of different search engines, all different! Yahoo just started first. They did nothing to make searching better. Google did it better. - Pottersquash, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1eBay does not fear Google (you think people will suddenly trust a NEW bidding site??? People barely trust eBay and its users with A++++++ Rankings, you think people will leave that and enter a new market?). Microsoft does not fear Google (you think if microsoft was afraid of anything they would release products that can be so easily ridiculed???) Yahoo, may be afriad of Google (not that they would die, just may not no longer be part of the Kings of Net).
Why does Digg keep making it seem like Google, Apple, and Linux will be the future? They wont be, they are good at what they do, but they will ever be anything more, and if they did, they would be just as bad as everyone already on top. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Name ONE company that Google has even come CLOSE to putting out of business. Answer...NONE.
(And seriously...unless you are 12, it is way past time to stop using PWN. Really. For your own good.) - jimmy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It's funny that ebay uses google for advertising- 400million worth
- angelwspr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I also doubt that google would get into the auction business.. they'd probably compete with paypal. at this point, google has way more midshare than paypal.
- dandiemer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2thats the lamest title ever.
- dementedcrabs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I doubt google is going to be a threat to Ebay for awhile... Most people don't even know google is trying to enter the online auction market. Even if google does enter it, people who have been using Ebay to sell stuff wont be leaving Ebay for awhile. I like Ebay, and I wont be switching anytime soon.
- nzjake, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1ebay owns craigslist
http://www.craigslist.org/about/press/ebay.stake.html - angelwspr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1ditto, if anything happens it'll be microsoft aquiring ebay... but why put more holes in a sinking ship? ;p
- The_Decryptor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Microsoft dabbles in a lot more then just windows..."
Yeah, they (MSN) also have a really crappy search engine they want to make money off. - DigitalDud, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Or unless Google writes GoogleOS...in python and javascript.
- ByteGuerilla, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Google is not a threat to Microsoft. Unless by 'Microsoft' eBay are thinking of 'MSN.com'
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"entail eBay promising to increase ad spending with the partner company, as well as sharing consumer data"
Oh god. There go our rights, Hooray ! :D
"However, they did say it could ultimately result in some kind of merger or acquisition."
Yes, Acquisition sounds more like it, when has microsoft ever merged with any company? - DigitalDud, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Google is bringing real competition? Google base? It's a total piece of crap that no one uses. Google hasn't produced anything innovative besides advertising and licensed search algorithms from Stanford.
- jclstone, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yahoo was not the first search engine. They weren't even the first portal. As far as I know, Yahoo search isn't even handeled by Yahoo, it's farmed out to a third party. Alta Vista?
- pinkpajamas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I wonder if Google eats up eBay and Microsoft, there might be a time when google might start getting sued for monoply.
- Thundercat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Google Calendar? Gmail for domains? Google Reader? There is competition, but no other place has their kind of variety/quality for free. If a site beats Google in something, Google has the advantage of integration with everything else you use. And Google has been buying up technology...check the news. Like it or not, Google's still comin'!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1ebay has been a monopoly for a long time. Google is the first player that will bring some real competition to the table. Ebay knows this... so their worried. I'll be glad to see ebay lower some of their astromical fees once Google starts killing their business with free listings.
- dclowd9901, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Isn't google planning on a craigslist sort of thing? That would be in direct competition with eBay.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1You never know, Google HQ might be on President George W Bush's axis of evil hit list because Google won't give into government search data demands.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Of course this gets modded down. IT is the only common sense comment in this thread. And it doesn't even go far enough. Not only do most people not know Google is trying to get into the online market, MOSt people don't know Google is anything other than a search engine.
Let the burying begin! Because of course, when you bury the comments that actually makes sense, it allows the pathetic diggies to live in their own virtually reality a little longer. - timalmond, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Microsoft seem to want to win everything.
Having the most powerful search engine would give them huge power to redirect people, if it suited them.
But search isn't the whole of it. It's also that Google are building a lot of web-based stuff, a lot of which could threaten Microsoft in a big way. If someone can do their work with a web-based application, that weakens the user base of Windows, and allows people to more easily make a transition away to Mac/Linux. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Just talk of the word "merger" scares me, nevermind anything else.
- gflammer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Google would be Giggle if IE7 had CustomizeGoogle built in...
- info, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Hmm... it's no wonder eBay stock is at an all time low...
So, if figure it this way. eBay and Microsoft are made for each other; two giants with monopoly cash cows that leave them totally impotent when it comes to any kind of innovation.
Sad, really. Maybe they can get adjoining plots... RIP eBay... RIP Microsoft... - timalmond, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0jclstone,
No-one has done a better webmail offering than Gmail. Just because others got there first doesn't automatically mean that Google isn't innovating. The UI for Gmail blew Hotmail away.
I'd like someone to tell me that someone has a better webmail than Gmail, and why. I'll switch if I'm convinced. - CutthroatMan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Microbay, buy totally overpriced buggy software for just the right price, the software auction megasite!
I'll just laugh on the next OS when I see a "My Auctions on eBAY" button in IE by default. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Is that per year? Man I thought that Googles revenues were around the 2 Bill Mark per quarter. I cant believe ebay is such a huge slice of the PIE. somethign abt that statistic doesnt seem correct.
- gailwin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0just another bunch of liberals who have to do things one way for a while and then make a fuss about it
- hfranco, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2If you can't beat them, join them.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0No, I meant liberal-BASED media. The major networks are the BASE of the liberal and democratic operations. And go ahead, attack me. All I did was supply a url to link why the media might love Google in reply to furtwan1's comment. Your reply indicates you have anger at the link. You might want to explore why that is.
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