Google vs. eBay: Round One
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As the Web giants invade each other's territory, the auction site yanks its ads from Google. But eBay may not even need them
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Auction website eBay pulls its US advertising from search engine giant and adversary Google.
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eBay will once again advertise on Google's U.S. AdWords network, but its spending on it will be significantly lower.
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Some unscrupulous vendors manage to worm their way into price comparison site listings. Knowing how these shopping engines work can help you avoid the bad apples.
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If only the rest of my investments worked out this way. One week ago, I submitted a bid for Google Inc. stock that overestimated the eventual auction price of the computer search company's initial public offering by nearly 30 percent. But I sold my shares shortly after Google stock began trading yesterday and still walked away with a nice profit, ...
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Even a big first-day jump in shares of Google (GOOG) couldn&#39;t quiet debate over whether the Internet search engine&#39;s contentious auction was a hit or a flop.
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Links to the week's topics from search engine forums across the web: Google Gadgets Now For Your Website - Is SEO a Game of Outsmarting Search Engines? - Relevant Domain Names - Business Week Article On Click Fraud, and more.
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Could the search-engine giant actually be cheap?
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Blog: Google hosting party at eBay Live for merchants who are opposed to eBay's ban on Google Checkout.
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Auction site will offer radio spots, in a rival to a similar Google service.
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Google Inc  will supply  eBay Inc  with Web search advertising outside the  United States, and the two will join forces on "click-to-call"  ads that link online shoppers to customer service operators,  the companies said on Monday.
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(InfoWorld) - Google Inc. plans to extend the product search capabilities on its main Google.com Web search engine in the fourth quarter, in time for the holiday shopping season. A Google official shared the news with attendees of the Professional eBay Sellers Alliance (PESA) Summit in San Francisco this week, according to people at the conference. When people search for products on Google.com, the system will present them with another search box so that they can refine their query, wrote Bear Stearns & Co. Inc. analysts in a note published Friday. After people refine their query, Google takes them to a second page populated with product results from the Google Base listings service, wrote the analysts, who attended Google official's presentation. "Ranking will be determined by the attributes that the sellers listed for the product as well as by relevancy," the analysts wrote. Currently, Google has no plans to monetize this product-search capability with display ads or listing fees, but that could change, they wrote. The plan also involves de-emphasizing Froogle as a destination Web site and moving its comparison-shopping capabilities to Google.com, because, as the Google official explained, most product searches happen on Google.com, according to the note. Google.com can already detect if someone is looking for real estate to buy, and asks users to refine their queries before delivering listings from Google Base. Thus, the plan outlined at the PESA conference would apparently be a significant extension of this existing feature toward multiple product categories. Jonathan Garriss, PESA's executive director, got very excited after learning at the conference of Google's plans. "Anything that improves product search and helps shoppers find what they want is always positive for a merchant like me," said Garriss, chief executive officer of Gotham City Online, an apparel store on eBay that also has its own site. Garriss already feeds product information from his store to Google Base. But after talking to Google officials at the conference, he plans to improve it. "It will make it a it smarter search. Google is giving us an opportunity to do that," Garriss said. PESA groups about 600 large eBay sellers that collectively generate over 70 million eBay transactions and US$1 billion in eBay gross merchandise volume annually. Google Base was introduced last November as a service for individuals and organizations to post content to the Google search index, including products for sale. From the beginning, Google said that Base isn't meant as a destination Web site, but more like a database to feed information to Google search sites, like Google.com. To stress this point, Google recently removed the search box from the Google Base site. Neither Google or the Bear Stearns analysts immediately replied to requests for comment. Â
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While Google Inc. (GOOG) made some well publicized mistakes leading up to its initial public offering, the IPO still brought in $1.1 billion for the company and more than $450 million for its founders and initial investors. But was the company's unique Dutch auction system successful enough for other companies to follow Google's lead?
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Google&#39;s auction process, both criticized and feared on Wall Street, could have gone much more smoothly, and investors may yet regret investing in a company that clearly plans to go its own way regardless of what others may think.
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After all the sound and fury about the initial public offering of on-line search kingpin Google Inc. - a decidedly bumpy process filled with gaffes, and accompanied by oceans of commentary â-nvestors are left with two major questions.
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After a spat between two of the world's largest Internet companies, online auctioneer eBay Inc. said Friday it would resume running advertising through Google Inc.
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Google search result outrage Online tat bazaar eBay has a penchant for slipping plugs for itself into your Google search results page, invariably offering to sell you whatever you type into the search field, regardless of plausibility.â¦