That's a great point.

I came to ask whether it is likely Google will be improving their product search? As someone who remembers all the way back to Froogle, I still find myself on product search, obsessively checking amazon, google, ali express, ebay, etc. to try to find the best prices and to find competing products.

Most often, that leads me to Asia. [Yes, I'm a geek, so most days I'm looking for consumer electronics.] I don't know but that Google is just as concerned with Alibaba's recent IPO, and Amazon is just a convenient whipping boy.

As a side note, no, I still don't really take ebay listings seriously. Ebay and Paypal are still so seller-hostile that I just use them for research and then try to buy somewhere else.