02-12-2007, 08:43 AM
Quote:When it comes to e-commerce, Google can't touch EBay.
Last week, Google Base received 844 times fewer visitors than EBay and Google Checkout received 71 times fewer visitors than PayPal, according to figures released on Friday by Internet metrics company Hitwise.
Google Base in particular appears to be suffering. The search giant's free submit-it-yourself content repository experienced an 18 percent decline in traffic between July 2006 and January 2007. Google Checkout saw a 362 percent gain in visitors during the same period...
full article: http://www.itnews.com.au/newsstory.aspx?CIaNID=45711&src=site-marq