Google and eBay Partner for Click-to-Call Ads 63
bart_scriv writes "A new joint venture between Google and Ebay will expand the advertising reach of both companies and integrate free phone service with web ads. The partnership also puts rumors of a Yahoo/eBay merger to rest. From the article: 'A deal announced Aug. 28 by eBay and Google now appears to put the kibosh on the notion of an "ehoo" or "Ybay" to challenge Google. Instead, eBay signed up Google to provide Web search advertising outside the U.S. And the pair will cooperate on developing so-called click-to-call ads — which let potential buyers click on a link and talk directly to sellers or their call centers — throughout the world. Tests of the ads in the multiyear agreement will begin in early 2007, though neither side revealed specific terms.'"
Thats not a very good name is it ? (Score:1)
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I can see... (Score:1)
Patent #56010201920191 pending on this new revolutionary idea under the general patent idea of annoying the customer even more.
Selex
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If anything, Froogle + Google Checkout is a Yahoo! Store [yahoo.com] killer, but that doesn't sound as sensational when you write tech headlines.
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Come on, its google. Of course its called Gpay!
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Everytime you buy something made in China, you help the chinese government. You'd hold google to a higher standard ? It's not like they are selling them censorship equipment or anything, just giving people the option of uncensored search, or censored search, and letting them know the censored stuff is censored...which is more than anyone else does.
They give a lot more than lipservice to open source. 77 million to Mozilla last year, through advertising. GFS and MapReduce is their core busines
All good friends, folks. (Score:2)
It makes you sick, doesn't it?
Re:All good friends, folks. (Score:5, Insightful)
Yahoo and Ebay are cooperating in the US market, but Ebay is cooperating with Google in other markets. Microsoft competes with Apple and, to some extent, Mozilla, but goes to some pains to ensure a certain amount of interoperability.
The shorthand version: competition for markets is not the same thing as war. Business-as-war is just a metaphor, and like many metaphors, it doesn't always fit.
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Business-as-war is just a metaphor, and like many metaphors, it doesn't always fit.
The business-as-war metaphor is certainly less apt for competition as practiced in free markets. However, when national governments take a hand in using competition to pursue national interests then business begins to look like war by other means.
One common example is that governments often use subsidies to lower the price of their products in order to sell more exports in the U.S. with the objective of getting U.S. dollar
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You assume that business interests are a subset of national interests, and that simply isn't the case. The relationship between the state and different industries is complicated, contested.
What is "an enemy" in this case? Is Ford doing business in Canada a case of the American state pursuing its national interests behind enemy lines? What is the enemy in the Middle East - is it the governments dominated by people with connections to business interes
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You assume that business interests are a subset of national interests
I don't assume it but many countries do. Certainly the old Soviet Union did and there is reason to think [www.cbc.ca] that China currently does as well.
In times past, people in power in the U.S. assumed an identity between American interest and business interests. Witness U.S. President Coolidge's statement [historycentral.com] "The business of America is business" and the statement [bartleby.com] by the president of General Motors thirty years later "What's good for the country is go
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But you can be assured of the fact that Microsoft only does it to prevent getting hauled in front of more judges to address their abuse of monopoly.
They are doing it legally cover their asses, not because they're being generous. If Apple and Mozilla are still around, M$ can say "See, we have competition". If M$ were to move to block Mozilla from working, they'd probably be faci
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I'm not saying that your analysis is wrong, mind you: it's mutual self-interest all around (cooperating with Apple ensures that Office remains a standard product across platforms; cooperating with Mozilla ensures that Windows Live will work across platforms - that benefits them far more than having
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I also do not believe that Microsoft produces Office for Apple to avoid the courts - they do it because it is profitable for them, it helped cement Office as the suite, and it gives them some leverage over apple.
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Further information (Score:5, Interesting)
Starting in the near future, Skype will offer its users the option to download the Google Toolbar, to which Skype will add a custom button. The companies will also explore interoperability between Skype and Google Talk via open standards to enable text chat and online presence.
So this collaboration seems like more than just click-to-call. The Skype/Google Talk interoperability sounds intriguing, and might give the low-market-share Google Talk some more standing in the IM world; perhaps this is a reaction to Yahoo and Microsoft, who are getting their IM clients to interoperate.
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Hopefully one day it won't matter whether you're using MSN, Yahoo, AIM, or Skype, you'll be able to call/IM anyone. Just like now it doesn't matter what email client you're using, you can still email anybody, and how you can call any cell phone or land line no matter which carrier you're part of. IM/VOIP needs to get there.
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I was not expecting this (Score:1)
It could, on the other hand, just mean that Google never intended to really compete with Paypal within eBay. I think it is good that they are sticking to their guns, which is advertising.
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I've been on eB
Prank calls will skyrocket (Score:5, Insightful)
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Does this mean (Score:2, Funny)
You will get negative feedback on your ads?
eh, who?
Sloth = Evil (Score:2, Insightful)
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eBoogle! (Score:1)
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Sales Reps (Score:3, Insightful)
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Don'r worry, you aren't forced to talk to anybody.
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How will this help with all the faulty sellers on eBay? eBay intentionally doesn't do anything about all the faulty sellers, because it helps their business.
call centres (Score:2, Funny)
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Mexuar (Score:1)
The problem with the Google technology is it is flawed. You could build the same solution with some old dialogic boards and a rainy weekend. It would have been hot in the 90's but technology has now moved on.
There are a number of vendors out there offering far more intuitive and less intrusive solutions however only 1 has a true clientless offering; www.Mexuar.com is a small but dynamic UK company who have r
A google ebay killer was never going to happen (Score:2)
There is no way google is going to risk that by launching a competitor.