A contrite and repentant Google canceled a party that irked eBay and that a source said led eBay to remove all of its ads from Google's U.S. network earlier this week. On Monday, Google announced it would throw a party in Boston on Thursday evening designed to attract eBay merchants who would be in town to attend the eBay Live annual seller conference. The purpose of the party: Protesting eBay's decision to forbid merchants in its marketplace from using Google's Checkout online transaction system.
The online auction company found Google's move to be in bad taste, and at some point after the party was announced, eBay took the drastic measure of pulling all of its ads from Google's AdWords U.S. network. A source familiar with the situation said that the decision to turn off the ads had come from eBay's top executives who were steaming over what they perceived as a low blow by Google designed to embarrass eBay in front of its top merchants. It would be hard to disagree with eBay executives' assessment, considering the mocking tone of Google's party announcement, encouraging eBay merchants to gather at the Old South Meeting House, where in 1773 mass protest meetings were held, leading to the Boston Tea Party.
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News source: InfoWorld
The online auction company found Google's move to be in bad taste, and at some point after the party was announced, eBay took the drastic measure of pulling all of its ads from Google's AdWords U.S. network. A source familiar with the situation said that the decision to turn off the ads had come from eBay's top executives who were steaming over what they perceived as a low blow by Google designed to embarrass eBay in front of its top merchants. It would be hard to disagree with eBay executives' assessment, considering the mocking tone of Google's party announcement, encouraging eBay merchants to gather at the Old South Meeting House, where in 1773 mass protest meetings were held, leading to the Boston Tea Party.
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Nochex doesn't have any support built in.
but noooo...ebay doesnt want to because they can have a monopoly (just about) on payment processing and rip you off horribly -.-
QFT!
Well last time I checked, eBay has several different forms of payment for buyers and sellers to use. Google is now a competitor to eBay and eBay should treat them as such. I would not doubt it if at sometime in the future Google buys a competing auction site (if they already haven't).
People need to stop thinking of Google as the ambitious upstart that it was. Google now has investors that want results and to achieve those results Google must take on the industry leaders. In effect, taking the fight to the enemy!
If you want to be a Google basher, get your facts straight !! Google complained about Vista search engine to be "at the time" not optional - and therefore using google desktop was redundant and caused heavy cpu usage. They NEVER asked to be default search engine in Vista.
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