My 100th blog is about…..Google! Fancy That!
Google’s Blog just made the announcement. Google Base is basically a free classified ads offering, competing almost directly with Craigslist, an eBay company (or partially owned, anyway). Although Google Base is nowhere close to Craigslist, I’m sure that the execs over at eBay are becoming a bit concerned.
Google indexes eBay almost permanently, so Google has alot of market intelligence as to what goes on over on eBay.com. Google operates Froogle, a shopping comparison engine, of which it’s counterpart over at eBay is Shopping.com. Rumours are the Google Payments will be released soon, to compete with Paypal, an eBay company. The bottom line really is the Google is getting to close to eBay, for any level of comfort in the eBay’s boardroom. Will be interesting to see what happens next…
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February 21, 2009 at 6:53 am
We are in a similar market as Google Base but our product gives structure (while still not imposing any set of predefined categories) to our index and therefore makes it possible for users to not only perform keyword search but also browse hierarchically with the ability to specify unlimited number of filters to refine their search.
Valnur
http://www.valnur.com
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