I already emailed this question to ebid customer service, which asked the question, why eBid is not Google verified? I have observed through Firefox firebug that eBay is Google, Bing, and Yahoo verified. Where ebid is not. I understand that ebid like Amazon might use Jquery or Java scripts PHP Ruby Python or whatever hieroglyphic animal. But when it comes down to doing a search on Google for auction keywords, not specific auction titles, eBay is really 1st on the list, then Amazon, and it makes me wonder if the scripts ebid uses are broken or just don't work.
My question is why not get the ebid site Google verified apparently it's free. I'm not sure about the other search engines I know Yahoo actually charges, but Bing might be free and they submit the site to Yahoo anyway.
If you were going to compete with eBay wouldn't it be a good idea to use similar tools? Like Google's site verification. Yes you could say that search engines work on hits and ebay gets a ton of hits and maybe that's why eBay is on top. But if a site can't be found to get hits, then the site won't get anywhere unless people search specifically for ebids, which I don't believe is likely people search with keywords of what they're looking for, and if it shows up as eBay that's where they're going to go.
thank you very much