eBay blogs, wikis and search tags launched today

Posted Jun 14th 2006 3:57PM by Melly Alazraki
Filed under: Products and Services, Launches, Industry, Consumer Experience, Competitive Strategy, Google (GOOG), eBay (EBAY)

If you've ever purchased or sold anything on eBay, you'd know what an incredible site that is, not just a well-functioning business. Well, in this case, the two are one and the same. Meaning, for it to continue its success, eBay must keep with the times and trends. And it does.

Last week, Download Squad reported that eBay was about to launch blogs and wiki features as well as search tags at the eBay Live conference in Las Vegas June 13 - 15.

Today eBay indeed launched the expected features as the Welcome to the eBay Wiki page indicates. Will these features do anything to eBay's bottom line? Not directly, but they will enhance the site and continue to give it an edge over its competitors and help keep the current 200 million registered users.

However, while eBay takes Google head on with its contextual ads feature, it isn't only threatened back by Google's GBuy, but also by a lawsuit. Net2Phone filed last week a patent case against Skype, eBay's wholly owned subsidiary. The VoIP patent was issued to Net2Phone in 2000 and seeing how important the integration of Skype is right now to eBay, I'd say this is something to watch.

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