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Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Wal-mart takes on Craigslist.com
You can find everything else at Wal-mart. Now you can find classified ads on its Website too.
The listings are free and are managed by the classified listing site, Oodle.com. You can find them on the list of Web pages on the left side of the home page. Just like everybody on the Web, it looks like Wal-mart is trying to boost page views anyway it can.
With its clout, Wal-mart could do some damage to popular Web services such as Craigslist.com and eBay’s Kijiji.com.
Techcrunch.com points out that Wal-mart has had a dicey history with online ventures but Walmart.com still attracts 26 million visitors a month. For comparison, Amazon.com attracts 47 million.
Oodle and Kijiji have been competing for second place. Craigslist, with 30 million visitors a month, is still the biggest.
I haven’t used them so if anyone has any experience with them, post a comment.
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Groups to Google: Make the Link
It’s a small thing for a giant Internet company: Adding a simple link to its home page.
But Google Inc. is running afoul with some privacy advocacy groups over just that.
Groups led by the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and others on Tuesday released a letter to Google CEO Eric Schmidt demanding he put a link on the company’s home page that goes directly to Google’s privacy policy.
Privacy proponents say a link like that is required by California law and also is common practice among big Web companies so visitors have an easy, one-click connection to find out how their personal information is being used.
Google has said it doesn’t want to clutter up its homepage with such a link, according to the groups.
“This is not rocket science,” Marc Rotenberg, Executive Director of the Washington-based Electronic Privacy Information Center said in a statement. “And the word ‘privacy’ is not going to take up a lot of space on the Google homepage.”
Except maybe on holidays and other special days when Google adds those fanciful drawings and designs on its home page. Or perhaps if it ever starts adding advertisements to its home page.