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It's Yahoo Plus eBay vs. Google

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the i'll-form-the-voip-solution dept.

Octagon Most writes "Yahoo and eBay have announced a broad partnership in their efforts to compete against Google and Microsoft." From the article: "In addition, Yahoo Web search features will be integrated into a co-branded version of the eBay toolbar, and the companies said they would explore developing 'click-to-call' ad technologies on their respective Web sites. 'Click-to-call' provides a link inside an advertisement that allows consumers to directly call the advertiser to pursue a transaction."

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  1. Ad wars, shmad wars by BadAnalogyGuy · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's all pretty irrelevant to me how hard these companies are working for my eyeballs. I don't even use the internet.

  2. AN interesting question... by Shadow+Wrought · · Score: 4, Funny

    If eBay dies and they decide to auction off the assets, how would they do it without themselves? Juast another paradox...

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  3. What will they name it? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yabay or eHoo?

  4. Heh.. by goldaryn · · Score: 5, Funny

    TFA: Yahoo and eBay said they do not expect the partnership to have a material impact on their financial results this year.

    Expect a statement soon from Google saying they agree :-)

  5. Join the queue by linvir · · Score: 4, Funny
    Seriously, just how many companies have joined forces into pairs to defeat Google by now? It's getting old already.

    And Yahoo can keep eBay for all I care. eBay's ads are irrelevant bullshit, and don't fit in with Google's stricter relevancy for other companies. I posted this image a while back (so if you must mod this up, make it Funny so I don't get karma from the same thing twice) , though it's not exclusively eBay.

    One thing though - I can see it being a loss for Google. I bet that it's a pretty sweet deal they have there, using eBay links as filler when no more relevant ads are available.