Living by Google Rules
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Mining the Web is only part of it. The search giant faces growing pains
and fierce competition.
By Steven Levy
Senior Editor
Newsweek
April 11 issue - A couple of weeks ago, a prominent dot-com warrior
gave me a hot tip about Google: the next big move of the search phenom
would be an assault on eBay. Think about it. Millions visit the Google
site daily; why not let them search for items offered by sellers? The
company already knows auctions, since it uses a bidding process for ads
that accompany its search results. And eBay might be vulnerable, since
it recently angered its sellers by raising commissions. The move would
be straight out of the "Art of War" playbook apparently distributed by
venture capitalists to all ambitious entrepreneurs.
Steven Levy
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Google
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