I think its safe to say that the majority of us that spend enough time online have found that Ebay will advertise for anything and everything on Yahoo and Google. I recently found that Target is doing the same thing.

While both Google and Yahoo would tell you that its all about the user experience and the relevancy of ads showing for a particular search, maybe someone can tell me how relevant Ebay Motors is to a search for “baseball cards” which I found the other day. I brought this up to Yahoo search team and they said they would look into it.

I really don’t think the advertising for irrelevant keywords by the large companies like Ebay will stop, and its no wonder its that much harder for the small business to compete with such online giants.

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