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...Ebay, Google's top advertiser, pulled its ads from the search giant's site after Google announced that it would hold a party Thursday night in Boston, where eBay had planned activities that evening as part of its Live! 2007 conference, a gathering of the auction site's devotees. The planned Google celebration devolved into a Boston tea party of sorts, with eBay dropping Google ads in protest of the search engine's party poaching. Google then backed off, canceling its shindig. EBay played it cool, announcing that its ad purchases were halted as part of a routine test...
...spat reflects growing tensions between the search and auction giants as each races onto the other's turf. Over the past year Google has ramped up Checkout, its online payment tool that competes with eBay'sPayPal, and eBay recently launched an auction marketplace for TV and radio ads aimed at media ad markets that Google is also targeting...
...eBay's retaliatory measure has proven surprisingly revealing. It turns out that eBay can generate a lot of traffic from Google even without bothering to advertise. A quarter of the search traffic Google sends to eBay comes from people typing in terms like "ebay.com" into Google's search box, rather than from ads paid for by eBay, according to research firm Hitwise. And given that Google's ad policy prevents it from placing rivals' ads when users type in "eBay," the auction site gets a decent showing on Google even without paying for it and without rivals' ads cluttering...
...even as eBay joins the list of Google's agitators, the search giant continues to soar, having recently overtaken Cisco Systems, albeit briefly, as Silicon Valley's most valuable company, with a market cap approaching $160 billion. And its battles don't seem to affect Google's broader reputation: In a recent survey by research firm Universum, 5,500 MBA graduates ranked Google the most attractive of all companies to work for this year...
...FITTINGLY WONKY remark by one of the world's leading philosophers, Richard Rorty described his 50-year career as a search to find out "what, if anything, philosophy was good for." A lover of politics and literature, Rorty rejected such traditional analytic questions as, What is the meaning of life? Instead he caused a stir--and irked critics, who called him a "moral relativist"--with books like Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature, which advocated pragmatism, the view that real-life interactions and consequences define truth and meaning. He was 75 and had pancreatic cancer...