So Far, eBay Is Beating Google

window.document.getElementById(‘post-3845’).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Google doesn’t lose often. Sure, there are plenty of small projects they start that never take off, but everything they’ve gone full-bore into they’ve done pretty decently in. Not Google Checkout, though, and eBay knows it. The Seattle P.I.’s Danny King puts it in a way that gets right to the point:
EBay Inc.’s Meg Whitman is doing what most Internet chiefs can only dream of: She’s beating Google Inc. in at least one corner of the Web.

It’s funny to think of it that way, but eBay is definitely winning this one so far. Google isn’t earning a dime on Checkout, and is spending money to get customers. eBay is even bragging that it won’t allow its users to pay with Checkout because Checkout users are dissatisfied with the service:
“In the latest survey we did, only 14 percent of Google Checkout users were […]

Original post by Nathan Weinberg