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Well well well….

Google today suddenly cancelled its “Let Freedom ring” party I wrote about, the counter event to eBay’s conference right now in Boston:

eBay Live attendees have plenty of activities to keep them busy this week in Boston, and we did not want to detract from that activity. After speaking with officials at eBay, we at Google agreed that it was better for us not to feature this event during the eBay Live conference. Google is constantly reaching out to new users and sellers, and we are available to privately discuss any matters of concern with individuals as they relate to Google products. Interested parties may contact us at checkout-reply@google.com.

Link: http://googlecheckout.blogspot.com/2007/06/update-to-our-event-on-614.html

And this page where you could register for the party also changed:

Thank you for your interest in attending. This event will no longer take place as originally planned. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Maybe there was some small pressure from eBay? Maybe after all it’s not such a good idea to mess with eBay which is also one of your biggest customers?

Now who’s your daddy?

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Na das ist doch mal eine Meldung des Tages!

Das Studentennetzwerk StudiVZ hat laut IVW die meisten PIs aller deutschen Webseiten und überholt somit erstmals T-Online!

StudiVZ hat 2,4 Millionen Nutzer die im vergangenen Mai 2,756 Milliarden PIs produziert haben. T-Online im gleichen Zeitraum “nur” 2,176 Milliarden PIs. T-Online bleibt jedoch führend bei den Visits: 263 Millionen (StudiVZ: 80,1 Millionen Visits)

Verantwortlich für die Vermarktung ist übrigens GWP media-marketing.

Tja, und all das trotz der anfänglichen Schwierigkeiten und der Schmähkampagne einiger Blogger wie Don Alphonso. Oder vielleicht gerade deswegen?

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It’s been a while now that Google tries to promote its successful popular Google Checkout and it wants eBay to integrate it into their payment options. According to eBay Google checkout is not scalable and not secure though.

As you might know, right now is the big eBay developers conference in Boston.

That was the perfect occasion for Google to organize a counter-event and invite eBay sellers to promote Google Checkout. Right after Meg’s PM keynote on thursday there will be a “Let freedom ring” party… To att.end the party click here, and here’s the invitation:

Monday, June 11, 2007
Posted by Alyssa England, Google Checkout Team

Are you an online seller attending eBay Live! in Boston this week? If so, join us for a celebration of user choice at the Google Checkout Freedom Party on Thursday night (6/14). To get to the party, just hop on the classic Beantown trolley in front of the Boston Convention Center and follow the freedom trail to the Old South Meeting House. We’ll use the same spot where revolutionaries launched the Boston Tea Party to celebrate freedom with free food, free drinks, free live music — even free massages. Join us and bring a friend. RSVP here.

Link: http://googlecheckout.blogspot.com/2007/06/let-freedom-ring.html

After that, discussions about integrating Google Checkout into Prostores (also an eBay company) were cancelled according to a Google spokesperson.

Then Google alerted the medias regarding the “Let freedom ring” party and dropped these nasty words: “anti-trust lawsuit” (eBay sellers previously filed such suits against eBay for their restrictive payment policies). Google seems to love anti-trusti lawsuits these days (like the ridiculous one against Microsoft regarding Windows Vista)
There are rumours that after that eBay pulled its Google Adwords campaign on monday night.

What next will Google do to force eBay to accept Google Checkout?

Might not be such a good idea to annoy eBay while eBay pursues its “finding strategy” (purchase of StumbleUpon, Cooperations with Yahoo,..) that will ultimately make them more independant of Google. Too bad, both would be a perfect example of coopetition.

And hey! Google Base doesn’t allow merchants to list PayPal as a payment option!

“Don’t be evil” ?

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Yahoo! Slurp has been migrated over crawl.yahoo.net. So all machines crawling as Slurp are now in crawl.yahoo.net. Page accesses from inktomisearch.com will appear as crawl.yahoo.net.

The user-agent is still Yahoo! Slurp though. Same for the IPs - they have not changed.

Some test crawl machines will continue to crawl under inktomisearch.com. Yahoo! China and verticals like Yahoo! Shopping or Yahoo! Travel have their own user agents btw.

So do not forget to review your cloaking scripts

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