eBay and Google being drama whores
I’m sure I’ll get plenty of comments about you guys already having heard about this.. but as of 11:00pm its news to me. Both eBay and Google are starting to behave like they run blogs and are in desperate need of linkbait.
LATimes – “EBay Inc. didn’t take kindly to Google Inc. crashing its conference. The online auction house pulled its ads from Google’s U.S. search engine this week because it was mad about Google’s encroaching on its turf — both literally and figuratively.”
Apparently Google was running a party to promote Google Checkout along the same time that eBay had their eBay Live yearly conference in Boston (this I heard about.) eBay decided to be a big baby about it and have pulled all of their ads off Adwords. As of right now I still see ads from eBay, but this is getting reporting in big newspapers including the New York Times so we will see.
Personally, I think it is great. Google’s actions frighten so many in the net marketing world, it is quite refreshing to see someone with the balls to put them in their place.
Comment by Nashville SEO — June 14, 2007 @ 11:54 am
Google won’t always rule the world. You’ll see.
Comment by Brad — June 15, 2007 @ 7:56 am
I’m also on the side of the other comments here… Score one for eBay. I’d have to think that if eBay can pull their Google adwords spend and still yield results on Yahoo & MSN — some other companies might consider jumping off the “Google is the greatest thing ever” bandwagon.
Comment by Dave — June 18, 2007 @ 1:31 am
good comments. i’ve never seen people side to yahoo more than google before
Comment by affuan — June 19, 2007 @ 5:19 am
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