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eBay and Google Make Amends, Kinda
It's been tit for tat for some time; eBay bans Google payments, Google tries to throw a party mocking eBay, in response to which the service pulls all of its ads, fun corporate shenanigans. It seems as though, for the moment, the two companies have made up. News.com is reporting that eBay ads will once again be serviced via Google's adwords service, but that they will also be using alternative methods to a greater extent in the future. "Hani Durzy, a spokesman for San Jose, California-based eBay, said his company later on Friday would begin advertising on Google, but at reduced levels than previously. eBay had been buying tens of millions of keyword ads on Google each year. 'I will tell you it will be in a much more limited way than it was before,' Durzy told Reuters. 'What we found is that we were not as dependent on AdWords as some people thought.'"
Why did they go back? I think they were more dependant then they thought and went back in a more limited fashion to protest their dependence.
"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
Yep. Everything you searched for with google came up with *lots* of worthless eBay hits.
Good riddance eBay.
Worthless, eBay was essentially spamming google, and google didn't seem concerned at all.
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Which translates as 'We found that we're way the hell more dependent on AdWords than we thought', right? They went back to Google in, what, 5 days?
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