Comments on: Companies want scrutiny of Google-DoubleClick deal

Yahoo, AT&T and Microsoft among those considering regulatory objections to search giant's planned purchase of online-ad company.

[a-k-a-l-l-e-n]

They're Just Jealous

that they didn't get to them first..

[ben::zen]

Definitely

All those companies wanted DoubleClick... However, can Google really say that their motto is, "Don't be Evil" now?

[lonny paul]

Shows Competitor's Weaknesses

If Google/DoubleClick account for 80% of the worlds ads, then Microsoft and Yahoo should be embarassed.

Wow.

[Freiheit13]

More power to them.

I tend to agree. This is not a market where one company actually holds monopoly power (not like, say, on desktop operating systems and office software) and both MS and Yahoo had several years head start on Google but they've lost out. Mind you, doubleclick was already huge -- I wonder how much of that 80% already belongs to Google as opposed to doubleclick. Either way, if Google won the bid then more power to them. Even with 80% they won't have a monopoly because anyone anywhere is free to serve up their own ads and to provide that service to others the way all four of the companies mentioned here already do.

[Betty Roper]

Hilarious...

If Microsoft had won the bidding the Tinfoil Hat Brigade would be out in force screaming about monopoly and threats to competition. But since it's Google, people cheer about it as if they were GOOG shareholders.

ROFL.

[aemarques]

The usual double standard

The posts in this thread reveal the usual double standard about MS: when Microsoft has 80% of whatever market, it is a monopoly that should be stopped; when Google does the same in the online world, it is OK, because they are *very nice people*.
No guys, they are *the same kind of people*: people in the business of making money! Go get a clue...