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eBay and Google Make Amends, Kinda

Posted by Zonk on from the best-of-cuthroat-enemies dept.

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.'"

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  1. Sounds like a pre-divorce situation by fishthegeek · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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  2. Re:Good riddance by owlnation · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.