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There are some stories that it’s worth throwing off your posting schedule for, this is one of them. In what has to be one of the larger corporate hissy fits in the past week, eBay has pulled its AdWords Ads as a protest against Google Checkout.

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Checkout is an offering by Google that works in a very similar way to PayPal (which happens to be owned by eBay). In short, it acts as an arbitrator for online transactions. Google has attempted to get eBay to offer Checkout as an alternative payment method but has met with heavy resistance up until now.

Thus, they did what any multi-billion dollar firm touted as being the repository for some of the world’s brightest minds would do — they planned a party. The party (which has been canceled) was an event designed to inform eBay power sellers about Checkout and to try to create some converts to Google’s system.

Needless to say, eBay did not like this idea one bit and in a fit they removed their AdWords Ads(at least from eBay U.S.).

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Considering eBay ads appear in Google’s sponsored results for almost everything under the sun, this move has to have hurt Google’s bottom line. Even after Google canceled the party, eBay has decided to continue the experiment — courting Yahoo! to pick up the slack where Google left off.

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