USA: Squabble between internet giants
Starting immediately, eBay will be running fewer ads on Google in the U.S. The reason: Google had scheduled a marketing event for its new payment service, «Google Checkout,» on the very same day as the annual «eBay Live» conference.
E-Bay is placing fewer advertisements on Google in the USA with immediate effect. The reason: Google had scheduled a marketing party for its new payment service "Google Checkout" on the same day as the annual "E-Bay Live" conference. Of course, this was not an oversight: Google wanted to use the party to lure E-Bay customers who had previously used its Paypal payment service. However, as reported by Pressetext, Google has since relented and postponed the party. The auction house, on the other hand, continues to restrict its advertising bookings on Google. The punitive action is justified by growing concerns on the part of E-Bay about "the strategic threat posed by Google", as Pressetext puts it. It is not known how much advertising revenue the search engine giant is losing as a result of the dispute.
