Comments on: Justice Department to review Google-Yahoo deal

Justice Department is preparing to send out document requests to third parties, as part of investigation into an advertising deal struck between Yahoo and Google, according to sources.

[ralfthedog]

This is very good for the consumer.

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This deal will keep Yahoo alive and functioning independently. Yahoo will be in total control. They can walk away at any time. They can sell as many or as few search results to Google as they want.

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Microsoft has proven themselves incapable of success in the search and online ad market. If Microsoft were to purchase Yahoo, it would just remove Yahoo from the game. By supporting Yahoo without purchasing them, Google has added competition to the game.

[Kwasiowusu]

This evil deal will effcetively emasculate, co-opt and neutralize Yahoo. Thers is imply no way, yahoo is going to strongly develop their search engine and compete effectively with Google in the market, if yahoo is making over $400 million from google every year, and yahoo's profit and revenue growth dpends on google doing very well.

[iRhapsody]

A viable way foreseeably short-lived.

[iRhapsody]

[t8]

Microsoft have never understood the Internet and they actually compete against the Web with their Windows platform. For Microsoft is has always been about preserving Windows at all costs. This is why Microsoft do not understand the Internet. They have no passion for the Web as a platform. Google does however, and look where they are.

[Kwasiowusu]

Google can develop their search products all they want...so far as they don't try to emasculate their second biggest compaetitor, yahoo. This deal is anti-consumer, monopolistic, and stinks to high heaven. The DOJ are gonna have to stop it. Its going to be delicious irony, since ite the same google that has been virtualy living at the DOJ for the oast 5 years, constantly demanding that the DOJ cripple Microsoft. Now they are gonna get a taste of their own medicine and like it.

[benjaminstraight]

You knew this would happen.

[Kwasiowusu]

Excellent news! for the Justice department to even think of torelating a Yahoo/Google hookup, wil be like allowing the re-emergence of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact. The ones who will suffer are American consumers and businesses. There is simply no way yahoo is going to compete effectively with google on price or anything else in search, if Yahoo imaking money, depends on google making money. In the interest of consumers, this deal has to be killed and buried for good.
It's funny google has been whinning to the DOJ about Microsoft''s so-called monopoly when Microsoft was about to release IE7 with Live search included in it, yet the same google is busy using monopolistic tactics by first of all pre-installing Google search in Firefox exclusievly(the same thing they accused Microsoft of trying to do with IE7), and then not content with that, google is now tryting to co-opt and neutralize their biggest competitor yahoo as as well, by entering into a yahoo pact that effectively gives yahoo no reason to compete with google in search. There si no question about it, Google is the Evil Empire. The DOJ has no alternative but to stop this outrageous deal at once.

[jamalystic]

Great news!! Hope the Justice Depatment do the entire internet community a service dsipelling this deal. Google is intent upon growing its monopolistic base and it's hi time they face the wrath of the law as microsoft did:Monolithic Monster: Is Google Replacing Microsoft?(http://www.internetevolution.com/author.asp?section_id=540&doc_id=148028&F_src=flftwo)

[Pete Bardo]

As an advertiser, I like the deal. It means I'll have one less campaign to manage. Microsoft screaming "anti-trust concerns" is absurd. Go Google!

[robvme]

Yahoo doesn't deserve to exist as a company and this is all an artificial and temproary measure until they finally succumb to the market. The only thing that is rotten here is that Jerry Yang did his shareholders a disservice and has conspired to give Google the edge. Yahoo is no longer capable of working idependently and has chosen to collude with Google. This is not about Microsoft, its about Yahoo and regulators are going to find anti trust issues, if not in the US, then in the EU probably after the fact when advertisers and marketin firms have only one choice.

[amarkj]

"Pete Bardo" if you're an advertiser you must not like market competition! I say the more companies involved in online marketing the better! Let's drive those prices down.

[as901]

Microsoft takes over companies to completely corner all markets, and the judtice department gives them a slap on the hand. Yahoo maintains it's independence and the justice department feels that that is "unfair business practice?

If Microsoft controls the operating system and the search engine, that will be far more harmfull to free enterprise.

Perhaps it is time to examine the people at the Justice Department's stock portfolio?

Mark Heinemann

[as901]

Why do I think Microsoft is calling in favors here?

Mark Heienamnn