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eBay PWNs Google

Google may be slowly taking over the world, but that didn’t stop eBay from putting it in its place. When Google invited eBay sellers attending the eBay Live! party in Boston this week to the Google Checkout Freedom Party — which was designed to poke fun at eBay’s restrictive policies — eBay got a little upset.

So what do you do if you’re the world’s largest auction site and the world’s largest search engine tries to make fun of you? Simple, you hit ‘em where it hurts: the wallet. eBay took down all U.S. advertising on Google, which led Google to cancel the party in order to make eBay happy again.

eBay puts Google in its place

Nothing like a good ole fashioned PWNing.

This entry was written by Jon Holato, posted on June 13, 2007 at 9:15 pm, filed under , . Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

14 Comments

  1. Jerry Yangsung
    Posted June 13, 2007 at 9:55 pm | Permalink

    Don’t chastise your customers!

  2. Erika Strum
    Posted June 13, 2007 at 10:33 pm | Permalink

    Wow major Pwnage.

  3. Jeffrey Henderson
    Posted June 13, 2007 at 11:27 pm | Permalink

    Does Google really just expect someone to open up their system to a direct competitor?

  4. Jason
    Posted June 13, 2007 at 11:37 pm | Permalink

    Don’t be fucking lame would be a good motto.

  5. pwnt
    Posted June 14, 2007 at 12:44 am | Permalink

    pwnt

  6. Tejvan
    Posted June 14, 2007 at 1:42 am | Permalink

    suprised Google were so sensitive. They make so much money anyway.

  7. Richard
    Posted June 14, 2007 at 1:46 am | Permalink

    Thanks for the no context post. Excellent “work”.

    Questions: What are ebay’s restrictive policies? Policies for what? What you can sell? Who you can sell to? What your picture can consist of? In what way are their policies restrictive? How was the checkout freedom party designed to poke fun at the policies?

  8. Robb Sands
    Posted June 14, 2007 at 1:52 am | Permalink

    And I thought Google was the one running the show, gofigure.

  9. mojo
    Posted June 14, 2007 at 6:07 am | Permalink

    Ebay ad spend is like minimum $100million dollars a year…

  10. nicerobot
    Posted June 14, 2007 at 7:28 am | Permalink

    Who owned who? Seems to me this emphasizes Google’s point about eBay.

    F*** eBay, the scammers paradise!

  11. Malcolm
    Posted June 14, 2007 at 9:06 am | Permalink

    FeeBay sucks, almost as much as guidos suck. Yea you heard right Guidos SUCK.

    Find out more here:
    http://yetanotherawesomeblog.blogspot.com/2007/05/excerpts-from-book-things-which-suck.html

  12. Carin
    Posted June 14, 2007 at 11:26 am | Permalink

    what people will do for satisfaction

  13. Josh
    Posted June 14, 2007 at 12:35 pm | Permalink

    Yeah… Heres a free site that is trying to go the opposite of Ebay.

    http://www.blujay.com

  14. Christine
    Posted June 15, 2007 at 9:20 am | Permalink

    Way to put your foot down eBay

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