Ebay Gets Mad at Google, Punches Self in Head
I haven't commented on this nutty eBay-Google catfight, but I can't restrain myself. With Google representing something like 5% of Ebay's lead traffic (versus the 3% of Google revs represented by Ebay), exiting Google's Adsense network in response to an ill-thought (and now aborted) Google Checkout event strikes me as silly, sort of like getting pissed at someone else and then punching yourself in the head.Okay, okay, sure Google was ham-handed planning their event coincident with Ebay's event, and sure, Google is overly precious in pretending to not compete with people it demonstrably competes with, but this is still dopey.
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