Is Google Gunning For eBay
Published March 31st, 2006
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When Google began testing a payment system in February for Google Base, its virtual catalog product, Internet pundits assumed the company was moving ahead with efforts to go head-to-head with eBay, the online marketplace giant. Not so, Google executives claimed.
That’s standard operating procedure for team Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ), which is constantly rolling out new products while insisting they are not meant to compete with established players. But in this case, the company may be more ingenious.
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