whitenight - 10:41 pm on Nov 10, 2007 (gmt 0)

Ok. Well since there's been no clarification, I will talk about EBAY since it's an Ebay subsidiary (and a pox if this gets deleted)

I'll make the rather foolhardy jump in deduction that the connection between an EBAY app and Google is such --

If Ebay wanted to seriously grow their business, developing some sort of "Shopping Only" Search Engine to compete with Goog (see Ebay - Google incident of this year) and take away alot of their adwords profits and traffic, THEN...

Using the information gathered from the Stumbleupon toolbar laid over the other SEs would be a good way to do it.

In reality, Ebay is one of the few companies with the available funds and real business competitiveness to actually build and develop a rival search portal that could easily compete with Google head to head (assuming alot here)

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Editor's note - started writing post before Tedster's reply :)