As if the issues with Google weren’t complicated enough, eBay may also lose another one of its features. A brouhaha has stirred over the use of the "Buy It Now" button, which lets users buy the item immediately, instead of waiting until the end of an auction. eBay infringed on a patent for this service, but the US Supreme Court ruled that MercExchange was not automatically entitled to a court order blocking it. It just comes to show that someone, somewhere could get perturbed about anything. Even the little button on someone’s web page that has done nothing to anyone.

Even though eBay is heavily supported by Google’s services, eBay removes Google Adwords advertising due to Google overly promoting its Checkout online payment service to EBay’s PayPal customers.

EBay gets as much as 20% of its traffic from Google, so without Google, eBay could possibly see a decline in new customers. However, eBay could have enough publicity on its own to possibly survive their decision.