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EBay.com, a highly popular and huge online auction and shopping website filed a lawsuit against Craigslist, one of the top advertising companies featuring free ads for everything from jobs to services and products to personals, for a network of online communities.

You might wonder how both these popular giants are connected. EBay had acquired 28.4% interest in Craigslist in 2004, making it a minority share holder in Craigslist.

Things do not seem to be fine on the home front. On Tuesday, a lawsuit was filed by eBay against Craigslist, with the Delaware Court of Chancery, in the State of Delaware, which is a forum that resolves disputes between companies registered in Delaware.

According to eBay, the reason behind them filing the lawsuit is that two directors of Craigslist, Craig Newmark and their chief executive, Jim Buckmaster, have unfairly entered into transactions that have diluted eBay’s economic interest in the company by more than 10 percent. EBay alleged that both the directors have breached their fiduciary duties.

EBay is keeping silent on further details about the nature of the transactions entered into by the directors of Craigslist. The reason for the silence is said to be the confidentiality requirement of some of the information given about Craigslist in the complaint, which is filed under seal. (more…)

Let us talk about Google first, the more popular of the two. Google is a major search engine that is well-known and well-used in many countries around the world. It provides the world’s largest and most scalable platform for huge web based applications.

While Google has always been known for its superior search engine performance, Baidu is a Chinese search engine that seems to be winning against Google, in the search engine war in China. Alexa ranking shows Baidu as the fifth most popular site in terms of visitors.

Research shows that Baidu commands approximately 60% of the Chinese search engine market, while Google is said to command about 25%. China is the world’s 2nd largest search engine markets with 150 million users, with potential of increasing tremendously in the future.

People in China find Baidu better and according to them, it produces better search performance. Their strong preference for their native search engine is revealed through their advertising, which calls Google, the “clueless foreigner.”

Analysts feel that this could just be the spurious opinion of the loyal Chinese citizen. This fact is reiterated by some people who admitted to using it because it is Chinese. Studies and comparisons reveal that Google is a more superior and powerful search engine. Google presents a better experience for the user. (more…)

In the good old days, there were albums, where pictures needed to be printed and stuck in. We progressed to posting pictures on the web, which also had to be done in groups into an online album. Flickr changed all that with the concept of digital photography, and alleviated the need for processing of rolls of film or grouping of pictures to go into an album.

Flickr, which was founded in 2002 by Ludicorp, is a digital image and video hosting website, providing a suite of web services with an online community platform. It is one of the most innovative photo sharing sites available currently and few other sites have had this impact on digital photo sharing as Flickr did.

Flickr until now provided users the facility of sharing personal photographs online, which can also be tagged and browsed. It has come to be a very popular website, also used by bloggers as a photo repository.

It has been a great hit with Mac users and Linux users, who have always been given a raw deal by other photo sharing sites that provide access to only Windows and Internet Explorer users. (more…)