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from eBay’s CEO Meg Whitman’s interview on Techcrunch

Q: eBay, along with Amazon and Yahoo, is now one of the elder statesmen of the Web. Do destination sites matter anymore? Whitman: My view is that, just as in many businesses, brands really matter. There will always be a role for destination sites. Eighty million users come to our destination. I think that will be the vast majority of our future business.

That said, we must be in distributed commerce in the future, taking listings for auctions and Shopping.com and distributing them to other sites. If they are not going to come to us, we are going to come to them. We are not at all averse to distributed commerce.

Donahoe: In many ways, our buyers will lead us there. We are making it much easier to bring eBay listings to your Facebook page, Myspace page, and shopping listings to various sites. eBay�s unique inventory offers better alternative [than other sources].

Meg Whitman