Trouble in Paradise – eBay and Google have their first major blue
June 17th, 2007
Anyone that uses Google will know that eBay is a major major client of Google Adsense – you’ll see any number of adsense ads for products sold on eBay almost any time you do a search.
In their first major spat eBay and Google has come to blows over an inevitable conflict of interest – Google has recently launched a payment system (Google Checkout) that competes with the eBay owned ‘Paypal’.
In a case of probably going a bit far, Mountain View based Google decided to rent an entire restauraunt across the road from a major eBay event in Boston to try and ‘educate’ eBay officianados about the benefits of their payment alternative.
After a fair bit of sabre rattling from eBay (and the withdrawal of a large proportion of their advertising contribution), Google has backed down and cancelled the soiree.
Let the games begin!
theDuck
Entry Filed under: General Discussion
If you found this page useful, consider linking to it.
Simply copy and paste the code below into your web site (Ctrl+C to copy)
It will look like this: Trouble in Paradise – eBay and Google have their first major blue
Leave a Comment
Some HTML allowed:
<a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <s> <strike> <strong>
Trackback this post | Subscribe to the comments via RSS Feed