posted on June 17, 2003 08:20:03 AM new
"EBay treats everyone the same so that no vendor has priority over another."
Oh really ???....Guess Miss Bambi never heard of Powersellers & Ebay's partially owned subsiduaries Returnbuy & Real Crazy Mo
The the latter two filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in January even though they were allowed to link to their websites. Ebay says you can't transfer your IDs but the new owner,Jabil,was able to get it transferred.
Looks like they are down for the count this time,their me page says closed for renovations,but posts by employess on internet chatboards indicate that they started winding down at the end of may.
[ edited by horsey88 on Jun 17, 2003 08:26 AM ]
posted on June 17, 2003 08:40:27 AM new
This article is riddled with errors. I've heard people talk about the phenomenon she describes but she's got it skewed about 90 degrees, and she makes some major factual errors.
The first thing that jumped out at me: "eBay bidding fees?" As Jon Stewart would say ... Whaaaa?
I'd imagine Google's already demanded a retraction of this line, which comes right after the one horsey pointed out: "On a search site, a vendor can bid for that priority. " (referring to search result rankings)
Uh, not on Google, you can't - which is the reason it's so popular, DUH! They do sell the ads that run along the right side of the listing results, but those are clearly marked as ads. She also implies that Google gets referral revenue from people who click on search results, which is not the case. If you click on an ad, they get paid. But the search listings are not revenue-generators.
If she doesn't understand the way Google handles paid listings, she got no business writing about Google.
Second, how can you write about e-commerce through Google without even mentioning the word "Froogle?" (Google's new shopping portal, which also doesn't charge for listings - yet.)
She talks about Overture like people know what it is. Most don't. Overture is not taking off very well, and that's because it's a lousy engine.
She also clearly doesn't get eBay, but I think that's painfully obvious to everyone here.
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posted on June 17, 2003 10:35:08 PM newThis article is riddled with errors. I've heard people talk about the phenomenon she describes but she's got it skewed about 90 degrees, and she makes some major factual errors.
Perhaps she got her start with Jayson Blair at the New York Times...or at least uses the same fact checker.
posted on June 17, 2003 10:41:53 PM new
There will be more and more of these news stories after Froogle is added to the Google search bar on the main page. I'm sure ebay has a strategy to counter any ill-effects, they always do.
posted on June 17, 2003 11:22:21 PM new
::She talks about Overture like people know what it is. Most don't. Overture is not taking off very well, and that's because it's a lousy engine. ::
You do not need to have ever heard of Overture or have an opinion on it to come in regular contact with it. Overture is responsible for the Sponsor Result on Yahoo searches.
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