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Since misunderstandings occur so frequently between just two or three people, it’s possible to appreciate how a much larger group could get…
Here’s the blow-by-blow so far: 2006: eBay owns PayPal. Google starts Google Checkout (June 2006). eBay bans Google Checkout (July 2006).
There’s no word from eBay’s side of things, but the cofounder and CEO of MySpace says his site could - at some point - be interested in partnering with the auction giant. Such a deal would be huge for both companies, and might also be damaging to Google.
Ad Relevancy & Quality Scores Google has again and again touted the value of their targeted marketing, but most of the fortune 500 ad dollars are not spent on targeted marketing. A couple weeks ago in a WebmasterWorld thread many advertisers complained about getting killed by another quality score update.
Google has historically been pretty secretive about what the company is working on – that's typical in the corporate world as it keeps competitors in the dark. But more interesting than that are Google's Not-So-Secret-Secret-Meetings with hundreds of attendees agreeing not say anything about what they heard.
The last time I wrote about Quintura, its “About Us” section made a fairly blatant plea for funding. I noted this request, and called it desperate. Now Quintura is millions of dollars richer, and I’m, well, not.
