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Heh, interesting example.

I would have been weirded out by this specific ad, because when I worked at eBay one thing that got highlighted in a companywide announcement was that some executive had decided to stop running ads for eBay against google searches for "ebay", because that is obviously pointless. (And that this saved a ton of money on advertising without impacting traffic at all.)

With a result like that, I wouldn't have expected them to go back to advertising ebay.com on searches for "ebay".



It's a famous story: https://slate.com/business/2013/03/paid-search-ads-did-ebay-...

That's probably why the malware author targeted the eBay keyword. Without any real competition, it would be cheaper for them to win top of page placement.




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