Watchdog exposes Google antics
Found on The Inquirer on Thursday, 29 May 2008
An anonymous tipster who alerted the Australian competition watchdog about Ebay's proposal to force its users onto the Paypal payments system was none other than Google.
The watchdog had received a 38-page anonymous report from a whistleblower in which the move was dubbed 'anti-competitive'.
When Bromage started to tell world + dog about Google's involvement, the document was pulled and has since been replaced by one less revealing.
I wouldn't call it anti-competitive. If Ebay forces me to use Paypal only, then I simply quit using Ebay; not that I use it more than once per year anyway. Having heard eyebrow-raising stories about Paypal, I don't trust them at all. Usually, the rules are simple: limit your customers, lose your customers.