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.'"

Comments

Re:Some people thought?

[TheRaven64]

Besides, if eBay only pays through click-thrus, why would they care if there are false-positives? I always click on the stupid eBay ad links. I figure if they're going to do something stupid, they should have to pay for it.

Re:It's not google's fault!

[MyLongNickName]

Keep up the good work, and we will let you have a user account soon! However, you need to work on your spelling... it is entirely too good.

Sounds like a pre-divorce situation

[fishthegeek]

Wife: I don't like it when you do (this) so I'm going to cut you off.
Husband: Oh yeah, well I'm going to have a beer with guys on your birthday.
Wife: Oh yeah well I'm going to ask my mother to move in.
Husband: Oh yeah! Well I'm going to let you.

Both think about it for a minute.

Wife, well maybe we can uh, you know work things out a little bit.
Husband: Well maybe. Have you seen my socks?

There is tremendous interdependency between an awful lot of web companies and to spite themselves they're going to have to play nice in the sandbox if they are going to get anything done.

Re:Good riddance

[owlnation]

I say good riddance to EBay's crappy Google ads. For a while there, you couldn't search for anything without 3 EBay affiliate ads offering to sell it to you. "Find people selling 'babies' on EBay!" "Lowest prices on 'babies'!"

Ironically, eBay's Safeharbor team does such a poor job that there are most certainly days when you actually can, in fact, buy babies on eBay.

However, I daresay the "lowest prices" part is misleading. If eBay scammers are selling babies, they are almost certainly shill bidding on them too.

Try defining your search!

[Nushio]

You could try searching for stuff and adding "-ebay" at the end.

The "-" tells Google what to skip, so if you're looking for something in particular, and keep getting spammed with "BUY!" and "EBAY", just type your term, and add "-buy -ebay".