Rumours about Skype is practically an industry in its own right. Never does a week go by without another rumour floating around about who could be buying them next, why it’s taking eBay so long to integrate Skype into eBay listings and where the company is going (and not going). The latest rumour to start floating around cyberspace is that Google could be interested in buying them.

I actually hope that this is a rumour that will eventually come true. I have been consistently shocked at how eBay bought Skype then threw them in the corner forgotten and unloved like one of their trashy auctions, where they made an impulse buy then regretted it the next day. I mean, look at how they have neglected Stumbleupon. They buy it then ignore it, except for putting a Stumble link on the eBay tools page. Gee thanks Meg Whitman.

Google on the other hand could integrate Skype into Google in so many different ways. Imagine a pumped up Google Talk, an integrated Google / Skype phone, a Skype application with a powerful Google search facility to find phone numbers in any country in the world (the phonebook on steroids!)

Download Squad speculates that we may even get developer API’s and even the Skype source code, in order for Skype third-party applications to be developed. So it would move from eBay’s Web 1.0 atmosphere to Google’s Web 2.0 atmosphere - and improvements may come as a result.

Wouldn’t it be nice for Skype to finally be properly appreciated by someone? I think it’s time for eBay to start their own auction - to sell Skype to someone who’ll actually do something meaningful with it.

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