I love this story in the New York Times. It seems Google wanted to crash the eBay Live convention with an event of their own that conflicted with some of the eBay events. Now, most of us convention organizers have to just put up with companies that choose to throw their own events and take advantage of the work and dollars we’ve dedicated to bringing everyone together in the first place.

But in this case, eBay happens to be the largest advertiser for Google search ads. So, they decided to run a “test” and pull all of those ads. Google decided to cancel the event.

I’m so envious.