In five to 10 years, there probably won't be enough top- to middle-range pictures left to keep the two international auction houses' engines running.
Among the examples are electronic auction firms, search engine firms, electronic malls, social network platforms, and online game companies.
At the same time, eBay is spending $260 million a year to advertise its auctions on search engines, with 60percentt of that on Google, according to estimates by Jordan Rohan, an analyst with RBC Capital Markets.
There is only one search engine, one auction site, one encyclopedia… and one social network.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 21 — Google filed a proposal on Monday with the Federal Communications Commission calling on the agency to let companies allocate radio spectrum using the same kind of real-time auction that the search engine company now uses to sell advertisements.
The country's largest newspaper, The Daily Nation, reported last month that Nairobi County does not have a single working fire engine, and that three fire engines were auctioned off in 2009 because the county had not paid an £800 repair bill.
Executives at Yahoo, which is based in Sunnyvale, Calif., said that the strategic investment was modeled after the company's investment in Yahoo Japan and that it is a long-term plan to strengthen the company's position in China by offering business-to-business and consumer auctions, online advertising, search engines and electronic e-mail messaging.
Google's launch of its ad exchange (named Doubleclick AdX 2.0) is significant because it allows advertisers and their agencies to buy online graphical display ads through an auction system, like search-engine marketing.
Also getting into the act is the Internet advertising network DoubleClick dclk, which several months ago began helping search engine AltaVista auction off search terms to mom-and-pop outfits, so that when a user performs a search, their paid ads, clearly labeled as such, pop up.
Similarly, a user should be cognizant of whether a particular search engine auctions keywords, especially if sites that have paid for preferential placement are not indicated separately.
