why would google want to do auctioning from ground up? More headaches than its worth.. Google are smart and are concentrating on more important things!
Google wouldn't be able to "buy out" eBay, do you guys realize how much eBay is worth? -- That would really suck if they merged. Google is a great company with amazing tech support, the eBay/Paypal techs are ass holes... I'd hate to have to deal with them if they were part of google. eBay fucks over sellers on eBay/paypal all the time, they only seem care about buyers. Either way, I doubt either of those would ever happen.
Google buying eBay, I really cannot see that happening!! Would google really want eBay as a business when they could get the same scenario and compete! I think this way google wouold win hands down.
So far we have many names that have been suggested: GooBay eGay GayBay GoogleBay Which one do you think is the most appropriate? If you were Page or Brin, what would you have chosen?
I cannot agree with you more. I always wonder why such sites do so well. There was an article or blog entry somewhere that pointed out many popular "ugly" sites that do better than well-designed ones, but I don't think that's necessarily the case (he's probably looking at the situation from some fallacious point of view).