Google, Froogle, GoogleBase and eBay Shops
Google, it seems, is making swift and strategic changes to expand and diversify its customer base.
Until quite recently, Google was just the place for a fast and comprehensive search of the web – nothing too fancy, just quick and accurate results for the keywords you entered.
Then along came Froogle shopping and with it, the opportunity to have your eBay items listed in the world’s number one search engine – a great way of increasing visitors to your eBay shop.
And then GoogleBase was released in beta trial format – offering free entry for product inventories as well as a lead through to classified advertising. GoogleWallet is still an unconfirmed rumour, but if it comes, it will probably be a PayPal lookalike.
During October, Google made a major change to the way its’ search engine tries to remove spam from its’ index – unfortunately, with a lot of “collateral damage” to legitimate web pages, including removing many millions of eBay items with a consequent drop in traffic for eBay sellers.
On 23 October, every one of eBay’s items were removed from Froogle – just for one day – but some people are asking, “was this a mistake or a trial run? – is Google planning to take all it’s search traffic away from eBay?”
Many eBay shop owners are starting to wonder what’s going on – is eBay going to do something to protect its sellers and their market place. Perhaps everyone should be prepared for major announcements soon? Yahoo!, wouldn’t that be great?
Until quite recently, Google was just the place for a fast and comprehensive search of the web – nothing too fancy, just quick and accurate results for the keywords you entered.
Then along came Froogle shopping and with it, the opportunity to have your eBay items listed in the world’s number one search engine – a great way of increasing visitors to your eBay shop.
And then GoogleBase was released in beta trial format – offering free entry for product inventories as well as a lead through to classified advertising. GoogleWallet is still an unconfirmed rumour, but if it comes, it will probably be a PayPal lookalike.
During October, Google made a major change to the way its’ search engine tries to remove spam from its’ index – unfortunately, with a lot of “collateral damage” to legitimate web pages, including removing many millions of eBay items with a consequent drop in traffic for eBay sellers.
On 23 October, every one of eBay’s items were removed from Froogle – just for one day – but some people are asking, “was this a mistake or a trial run? – is Google planning to take all it’s search traffic away from eBay?”
Many eBay shop owners are starting to wonder what’s going on – is eBay going to do something to protect its sellers and their market place. Perhaps everyone should be prepared for major announcements soon? Yahoo!, wouldn’t that be great?
