Buying old domains for SEO benefit

[LowryBigwood]

Originally Posted by oldbrad

I read up a little about that in the past. Supposedly, from things i read, some se's may be able to tell that a domain has changed owners whether from spidering the whois info or by noticing a large change in the sites design and content, thereby starting over as a newly registered domain.

Brad

Good points everyone. What I am wondering now is... Why would Google care if you sold your domain as long as the site remained the quality content site it already was before selling the domain. For example, what if a name brand site like eBay was sold to another huge corporation.

Would they then lose their search engine rankings or positions over the transfer? I don't think so, but I'm no expert.