Meanwhile both are competing for the worse searching/discovery system possible. Great feeling when you factually know the product you're looking for is there bu

Meanwhile both are competing for the worse searching/discovery system possible. Great feeling when you factually know the product you're looking for is there but you can't get to it easily because their suggestions keep pushing other stuff to you. As an aside, I feel like Ebay is one of those few "early behemoths" that actually figured out why they were working: you could know how reliable this john smith has been as a seller. And when internet payment was still terrible, they doubled down on it with Paypal (say what you want about paypal as a seller, but as a buyer it's still gold today, so ten years ago ...). Most selling communities that survived here in France either have also their own reputation system, or they're cash in hands. I find it kind of funny when compared to more "modern" tech giants like, say, Twitter; a company which has no idea why their product works.