In addition to today’s Internet Marketing Monitor coverage, we felt these stories were worth pulling out of the multitude of news items for June 22, 2007:

EBay will run ‘limited’ ads on Google [USA Today]

After pulling its ads to protest Google’s increasing aggression toward PayPal, eBay is now saying that it will resume advertising on Google later today - to a lesser degree. The auction company said they will invest most of the money previously spent on Google into other options (Yahoo, MSN, AOL, and Ask.com are mentioned). At the time of this writing, I couldn’t find any eBay ads back on Google yet. I’d love to find out how this experiment works out for eBay. What do you think the chances of them sharing their experience in a couple of months would be? Haha… slim to none, right?

Google Sells Hardware? [Official Google Enterprise Blog]

Yes… it’s true. Google does sell hardware in the form of the Google Mini and the Google Search Appliance. The Google Mini and Search Appliance power enterprise-level search applications for corporate intranets and websites. They’re really good products, too (we’ve got a couple of them around here). The hardware is solid and the software is fairly simple to use. So that they can focus more on the software side of their search hardware, Google is outsourcing the actual production of the Google Mini and Search Appliance to Dell. Google will continue to develop the software that manages the appliances. But the physical appliances will be made by Dell. Don’t worry - Dell isn’t taking over the design of the boxes. They’re still blue and yellow, respectively.

Google says Vista search changes not enough [ArsTechnica]

After Google raised concerns with the government over Windows Vista’s desktop search - and specifically the fact that it was built into the OS - Microsoft decided to make changes that would allow other desktop search options to be set as default. Google says this isn’t enough. Mountain View was hoping to pressure Microsoft into making more substantial changes that would allow competitors (read: Google) to plug their desktop search option in to actually replace the built-in search option in Vista. What do you think? Is this a reasonable request? Or should Microsoft tell Google to be happy with that they’re getting?

This has been a pretty eventful week, search-wise. For an extended look at everything that’s been going out, check out the Techmeme River - which shows you all of the important news for the whole week in one big list. Nice!

Have a great weekend, folks. We’ll be back on Monday to get the party started all over again!