LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Online marketplace eBay Inc. is set to unveil a keyword advertising system for eBay sellers to promote auctions on other Web sites, borrowing from the strategies of Google and Yahoo. Michael van Swaaij, eBay (Research)'s chief strategy officer, told a conference of software developers here Saturday of plans to allow eBay's army of auctioneers to run contextual ads on other Web sites in exchange for a cut of the resulting eBay sales. http://money.cnn.com/2006/06/10/technology/ebay_advertising.reut/index.htm
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