The phrase "auction method" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific approach or technique used in conducting an auction.
Example: "The auction method employed in this sale allowed for competitive bidding among participants."
Alternatives: "bidding process" or "auction technique".
And the unusual auction method that Google has chosen poses additional risks.
These gaffes are lamentable because they may give pause to other companies contemplating the "Dutch auction" method that Google relied on, which has plenty to commend it.
Almost exactly seven years after formally pulling its initial public offering documents, Rackspace is back with a plan for a $400 million stock sale — using the unorthodox Dutch auction method.
It is one of the most anticipated public offerings coming out of Silicon Valley, and its Dutch auction method and year-end timing shows just how confident the company is.
New York State's electricity system relies on a complicated auction method whereby utilities like Con Edison say how much electricity they think they will need and generating companies say what price they need to produce electricity.
The resource allocation problem is solved by an iterative combinatorial auction method in [14].
Yet this season the Phillips catalog of Impressionist and modern art has dealers, auction house experts and collectors buzzing about some of Phillips's auction methods.
F.C.C. auction methods used in the past have been criticized because they required advance payments, leaving companies with less money needed to build infrastructure, resulting in fewer benefits to consumers in the way of advanced telecommunications services.
In 2003, a jury found eBay guilty of infringing on MercExchange patents on auction methods and said eBay also must pay $35 million.
Most notorious are "business methods" patents, such as the patent held by Priceline, an online ticket agency, for the Dutch-auction method of selling tickets.
The San Francisco-based firm has a trademarked Dutch-auction method of distribution which has received a lot of media attention.
