Google Base suffers 18% decline in traffic from July 2006-January 2007

[mandy]

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

[bargainbloodhound]

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.

Probably because they removed the Base link from the 'more Google products' page. I'm surprised it didm't fall more than 18%

[FiberGuy]

[quote author=bargainbloodhound link=topic=7356.msg43513#msg43513 date=1171301127]

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.

Probably because they removed the Base link from the 'more Google products' page. I'm surprised it didm't fall more than 18%
[/quote]

Online shoppers/surfers can't click on what they can't see...  Go figure.