Monday, April 14th 2008
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Higher Antitrust Bar for Yahoo!-Google Partnership
Experts are claiming that a business partnership between Google and Yahoo! could be more heavily criticised by US and EU competition regulators than a merger between Microsoft and Yahoo!. Aaron Edlin, who teaches law and economics at the University of California at Berkeley said:
Source:
Reuters
The Justice Department would certainly want to take a serious look at that because it would mean that a firm that would want to take advertisements or to place advertisements (online) would have only one place to go.Google was the top search engine in February, accounting for 59.2% of US web searches, with Yahoo! and Microsoft lagging behind on 21.6% and 9.6% respectively. Microsoft has proposed a $42 billion takeover bid for Yahoo! in an attempt to combat this dominance, although Yahoo! has so far refused to accept the deal.
12 Comments on Higher Antitrust Bar for Yahoo!-Google Partnership
Whether this deal will be investigated in the US: Depends on who has more money. Let me guess, though -- you have no problem with MS's monopoly of PC's. :shadedshu
If Google buys Yahoo, the internet will be the new Windows ME in a few years. Every page on the internet will be so full of text ads I'll want to kill myself.
yahoo would bring adds