Google Inc. said Monday it will become the exclusive text-based advertising provider for eBay outside the United States. Also, the two companies will integrate and launch so-called click-to-call "advertising functionality that leverages both Skype and Google Talk globally in each company's respective shopping and search platforms," the two entities said in a statement. The companies plan to begin testing the text-based advertising and click-to-call initiatives in early 2007 that will be evaluated over several months, The United Press International (UPI) reported.
