eBay pulls US Google ad campaign

Filed in archive Newsdesk 2.0 on June 14, 2007

We are little children, so we act like little children. eBay must have thought the same when they decided to pull their American Google ad campaign.

eBay has pulled all of its paid search ads from Google'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. (Yahoo! News)

The rumor says it is a reaction to a Google Checkout promotion that was directed to eBay merchants.

EBay has said that Checkout, introduced about a year ago, doesn't have enough of a track record yet, while Google argues that eBay is just trying to protect its own PayPal online payment system.

Enough said, rite ? I'll just sit here an smile over this little war....