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Implications of the Google/eBay Spat

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Business Rule #1: Don't tick off your biggest client. Business Rule #2: If a medium works really well for you, keep using it. Business Rule #3: Don't drive angry. It seems strange that two of the biggest, most successful companies in the world would need a review of Business 101, but Google and eBay may need it.

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Okay, so Business Rule #3 is Billy Murray's advice to a groundhog – but in a metaphoric sense, it seems appropriate. <br />
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<strong>Recap for those just tuning in:</strong> <br />
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This week, eBay had a couple of major events planned in Boston – the eBay Developers Conference and eBay Live. Google's got this PayPal competitor, Checkout, which launched last fall just in time for the Christmas season, and thought it'd be a hoot to throw a party to promote it – in Boston, at the same time as eBay's shindig, and invite everybody at eBay's party to their party instead.<br />
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EBay, already quite nervous about Google in general (eBay's been intensifying its relationship with Yahoo already because of this) didn't like this stunt one bit, and pulled its AdWords campaign in retaliation. <br />
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