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Or finally a big business that can admit when it's wrong at relative lightning speed. I'm with Google on this one; the only party that did anything wrong until the 'party' announcement was ebay.

Google should have thought more about this party before they engaged. Now their doing a 180 because "eBay Live attendees have plenty of activities to keep them busy", right.

and they have been trying to get me to try video ads too

i think i'll wait and let someone else be the guinea pig

What exactly is this comment based on? The move from the legacy Y! ad services to the new Panama is the biggest blunder I've seen recently. Google's AdWords is still the best interface hands down.

Regardless, it just looks like G did something silly thinking they were going to be cute, but it backfired and they put a stop to it before stuff started hitting the fan.

I don't see anything wrong with the party. Competitive companies through events all the time around other big conferences or gatherings. It's business. ebay is the monster that is restricting another form of payment. As a former powerseller, I view that as annoying. It should be up to sellers to do business how they want. Ebay is just a forum for people to get together and do independent transactions. If another big system is set up by the postal service, ups or a credit card company, will they ban that too? If Paypal had any kind of service or protection, people wouldn't want to go elsewhere.

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As I see it, Google is the one with the power since they can direct traffic anywhere they want. I like eBay and have used it for years, but compared to Google I don't think they have anywhere near the potential to influence the spend of millions of people like Google can. After all, it was eBay advertising on Google, not the other way around.

Does Google need eBay? I don't think so. Maybe a Google Auctions is in the works somewhere at the Plex - how would that sit with eBay? If eBay really wants to play hardball, they'd be wise not to underestimate Google. Tick tock.

There are many times I am searching for something and come across a google ad and check to see if any of them are relevant. As soon as I can tell it is an ebay ad, I just do not click it. They clog up relevant ads and in the end, bring down the entire experience.

In the adsense forum, many have complained about this for months. Honestly, this is the best thing to happen to adsense this year.

I shouldn't be too happy though, tomorrow I will probably start seeing:

The market must be confident that Google will roll out Google Auction and bite hard into eBay and Paypal's market share.

I for one would like to see Google come up with a service that will make Paypal obsolete. I have some money Paypal and it will not let me withdraw it in my country, bank wire to my country, or post a check to my country. (FYI, I'm in South East Asia). And there are so many other people who sold their stuff on eBay, and all their money is sitting in Paypal and cannot be withdrawn to be used.

Also, both Google and eBay play an important role on the internet. Millions use them both every day, and there is room for them both. So, a squabble gets going, but they are both mature enough to sort this out, and reach a satisfactory conclusion for both parties.

Google SHOULD take the fight to the next level and eliminate ebay auctions from their SERPs. They are nothing but spam. eBay would crumble like a stale cookie.

And, with the FTC likely not to be too keen on the idea of a Google/eBay or Goog/Yahoo merger, Google could just introduce their own auction system. They would not even have to do it for free. Ebay's fees are so ridiculously high, they'd likely be able to charge enough to be profitable in short order.

That is what I thought of Google check-out when I used it last holiday season...very poorly done.