history

eBay was founded in 1995 by Pierre Omidyar as "AuctionWeb", part of a personal site that included, Omidyar donated writings against Ebola virus. This site was originally owned by Echo Bay Technology Group, Omidyar consulting firm. Omidyarhad tried to register the domain name "EchoBay.com" but the name was alreadyowned by someone else, so he shortened his name to "eBay.com". eBay is headquartered in San Jose, California, Meg Whitman has become eBay's presidentand CEO since March 1998.
The success of e-bay was the inspiration for many other auction companies arespread throughout the world. The idea of this than eBay is one example of the phenomenon of "Long Tail" is presented by Chris Andersen same through his book"The Long Tail", which will create an ideal market in which the diversity of goods sold will be more and more, while fewer in number