eBay has pulled its US advertising from search engine giant Google. The move comes after Google angered eBay with a provocative decision to hold an event on the same evening as eBay's annual merchants' conference.Google's party was aimed at attracting attention away from eBay's payment system PayPal to its own card processing service, analysts say.eBay spends an estimated $25m (£12.6m) a year advertising on Google in the US. This makes eBay potentially the biggest single user of AdWords, Google's advertising system that shows adverts based on words in web searches and the biggest money-spinner for the internet search engine.the company were disappointed over Google's plans to host a rival function in an attempt to build market share for its Google Checkout payments service, which was launched in the US last year and became available in the UK in April.Google hoped to alert PayPal users who would have been in Boston attending the eBay Live annual seller event to its own service, according to market experts.It could also have been seen as part of an effort to get eBay to accept Google Checkout, currently banned on the online auctioneer's site.But in a contrite manner, Google cancelled its rival function a day before it was due to happen and stated on its blog: "After speaking with officials at eBay, we at Google agreed it was better for us not to feature this event during the eBay Live conference."Analysts believe that after negotiations, eBay will once again be advertising on Google, which accounts for more than 50% of search queries in the US and 80% in Europe.
