Let’s get ready to Rumble!!! Ebay vs Google
June 14th, 2007 by Casey
So Google decides to have a little fun at eBay’s expense and holds a ‘Freedom Party’ right before eBay hosts its own eBay sellers event. This was an attempt by Google to gain some momentum in allowing Google Checkout as a payment method in the eBay marketplace. Well eBay didnt take to this idea to fondly and abruptly pulled ALL their ads on Google, they have a lot of ads by the way and I would be suprised if eBay isnt one of Google’s biggest advertisers. On the other hand, I would bet that Google is eBay’s largest traffic source.
I for one wouldn’t want to piss off Google too much, Google could just counter and drop eBay and all thier properties from their index. Then what would eBay counter with?
I think eBay is in the wrong here, and Google took the high road when they could of played this game and everyone would of lost, especially eBay.
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