EBay Pulls Ads From Google's U.S. Ad Network

EBay Inc. has pulled all of its paid search ads from Google Inc.'s AdWords network in the U.S., an eyebrow-raising move likely to be interpreted in the industry as a sign of deteriorating relations between the two Internet giants.
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Now, Shoemoney mentioned this weekend that there would be a press release involving AuctionAds and eBay coming this week. He gave me no further information.

I am now wondering seriously if eBay is going to buy or partner with AuctionAds, throw a bunch of money and marketing at AuctionAds as an Adsense competitor.

This has broad implications - positive ones I think. eBay has been moving away from Google and struck a deal last year with Yahoo that, among other things, made Yahoo the exclusive provider of search and display ads within U.S. eBay sites.

Are we looking at a real competitor to Google coming? A merger of eBay, AuctionAds and Yahoo could be on the horizon. Such a combo would make a strong competitor to Google.

I wonder where Microsoft will fit into all this.

This sounds promising to me.

I think it's a conspiracy!

I wonder if this could lead to a revised TOS from Google forbidding AuctionAds from appearing on the same page, similar to the restriction for Yahoo ads.

BTW, probably completely unrelated but AustionAds is down again.

I think it's a conspiracy!rofl! You're goofy...



I wonder if this could lead to a revised TOS from Google forbidding AuctionAds from appearing on the same page, similar to the restriction for Yahoo ads.
Let's all hope this isn't the case...