Not one to be pushed around, eBay dropped all their ads in Google, and Google blinked, killing off the party and the ability to meet and greet with the eBay literati.
Two titans, both with a product, and we think this is the first time that Google has blinked, and it bodes well. This is the first time that Google has "lost", and not lost on their own terms. Google is now no longer "invincible", and people are learning that it can be defeated. Ok, so it might take being as big as eBay, but hands down, eBay won this round.
"We are pleased that they apparently have seen that the party was inappropriate," Mr. Durzy said. "It is not the way one partner should act with another." Besides being rivals, the companies have a deal for Google to sell ads on eBay sites overseas.
Analysts said eBay's decision to withdraw its ads is not likely to hurt the search giant. EBay spends less than $25 million on Google a quarter, said Jordan Rohan, an analyst with RBC Capital Markets, or only a tiny fraction of Google's nearly $3.7 billion in revenue in the latest quarter. Source:Suggest a Correction
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