Google, the new home base?
What do you get when you combine EBay, Craigslist, upcoming.org, monster.com, match.com, and many others? It appears to be Google Base. It hasn’t officially launched yet, so those services are merely speculation. However, the likes of those services has been the buzz lately.
Now it is becoming more clear as to why EBay bought Skype, because Google now has everything EBay has (and a ton more). They will both have VoIP (GoogleTalk & Skype), Auctions (Base & Ebay), Classifieds (Base & Craigslist which Ebay owns part of/Half.com), and a payment system (Paypal & soon to be released Google Wallet).
The difference between the two? Google = free. As long as Google has eyeballs looking at their ads, they’ll release every one of their products for free. Base won’t need it’s own revenue stream. Ebay on the other hand has no revenue stream if they don’t charge for postings.
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