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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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