eBay Takes All Its Adverts Off Google

eBay has pulled all its advertising from Google after learning of the search giant’s plan to gatecrash its user conference this week to promote Checkout, a rival to eBay’s PayPal payment service.

The online auction site, which is Google’s biggest advertiser by far, cancelled the adverts indefinitely after the search engine invited eBay’s largest sellers, in Boston for their annual convention, to a rival party.

Once at the party, which was scheduled for last night, Google planned to extol the virtues of its fledgeling Checkout online payment service.

But in a move that will give satisfaction to the growing army of Google-haters, the search firm cancelled the event on Wednesday night after eBay announced that it would cease advertising with the search engine.