Google & eBay on a Collision Course
Posted by Sebastien on the 2007/06/14 at 08:49
in Coopetition, Google, Google Checkout, Search Engine Marketing, Shopping.com, eBay -
Google and eBay had a staring contest in the last few days, which resulted in eBay winning a round against Google.
TechCrunch has a great summary of what happened:
- eBay doesn’t allow merchants to use Google Checkout to settle eBay transactions. Google invited eBay online sellers attending eBay Live! in Boston this week to a party that they called the Google Checkout Freedom Party.
- eBay decides to pull all U.S. advertising on Google.
- Google backs down, cancels the party.
What it means: eBay is the biggest Google AdWords advertiser (which might be worth more than $100 million in revenues for Google). According to this SF Chronicle article, “EBay’s ads showed up on Google 188.3 million times in March, according to comScore Networks, more than double the number run by Target, the No. 2 Goo