Angry eBay pulls Google adverts
Found on BBC News on Thursday, 14 June 2007
Auction website eBay has pulled its US advertising from search engine giant and adversary Google.
The move comes after Google angered eBay with a provocative decision to hold an event on the same evening as eBay's annual merchants' conference.
Google hoped to alert PayPal users who would have been in Boston attending the eBay Live annual seller event to its own service, according to market experts.
It could also have been seen as part of an effort to get eBay to accept Google Checkout, currently banned on the online auctioneer's site.
And I already hoped that this was the end of those useless search results. Everytime you look for something which could possibly be sold, those stupid auctions pop up as results. Looks like I will have to use "-ebay" for some more years when googling.