Within the last 48 hours Google has dumped all 20 million plus ebay listings from Froogle and all listings submitted by ebay sellers to Google Base. Including direct submissions made by ebay sellers to Froogle and Google Base. ebay sellers are letting ebay have it on the ebay discussion boards as they have been plagued with printing problems, broken upgrades and outages this Christmas season. Was this a result of Google trying to patch the cross-scripting security flaws in Google Base, an attempt by ebay to maintain control of it's product feeds or the first shot fired by Google in an upcoming war over ebay and craiglist turf?
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Within the last 48 hours Google has dumped all 20 million plus ebay listings from Froogle and all listings submitted by ebay sellers to Google Base. Including direct submissions made by ebay sellers to Froogle and Google Base. ebay sellers are letting ebay have it on the ebay discussion boards as they have been plagued with printing problems, broken upgrades and outages this Christmas season. Was this a result of Google trying to patch the cross-scripting security flaws in Google Base, an attempt by ebay to maintain control of it's product feeds or the first shot fired by Google in an upcoming war over ebay and craiglist turf?