Comments on: Google: Yahoo pact 'preserves' competition

Aiming to lay out its case ahead of any antitrust challenges, Google senior VP Omid Kordestani draws parallels to other industries, such as printer and auto businesses.

[t8]

I have to agree.

Google is good for the Web and for Web companies and this deal makes it even better.

[JCPayne]

Having a small box with adds on the Internet would raise Anti-trust issues??? Now I know CNET is paid off by Microsoft.

[JCPayne]

This is simple...

Google knows: their bread will be buttered by NOT having Yahoo in Microsoft's camp...
-And-
Microsoft knows: their bread will be buttered by NOT having Yahoo in Google's camp....

No matter what--- a combination of any 2 of these 3 is going to create sour grapes whining from the other member.... This automatically creates a *two member* winning team... And one LOSER... If Microsoft wants Yahoo soo bad-- raise their price.....

[decision_stats]

And why is Google the holy cow of internet ?

Because there slogan is (still ?) dont be evil

Because if you are on the net its impossible to move from one spot to another without needing adwords,adsense,google analytics,feedburner,blogspot,orkut (or face their meddling in FB ,Yahoo valuations )

Does Google ;s loss making deal with My Space sounds like fair competion

Search and Advertising are different things.
They need to be seperated within Google so that there is no conflict of interest and there are no operational synergies (if there is too freedom)


why doesnt google make its own algorithm on search open source (like they do for anything else they lag behind)

(and thus make it a collobrative model ending click fraud)


why dotn they move beyond the cpm inefficient model to cost per lead or cost per purchase ..

and when will the company advised by Al Gore disclose the carbon footprint of ,the jets,the new space mission,and the big big server farms



google uses the search engine hegemony the way microsoft did with it's OS , and uses it finance more ways to collect data and aggressively mine it like gmail,

or any other service which has a default option to share data especially scary for Google book project and google desktop search on the network.....

unlike MS whos content to just get paid a premium for software ..

for advertisers Google and Yahoo make less competition , while Microsoft and Yahoo make more competition..and thats what anti trust is all about...





do not be evil ,just hire smart lawyers ,bloggers and PR people

[nutjob]

This is what Google claimed to be monopolistic when MS was trying to buy Google, why is it not now? Google its Health storage plan and linking gmail to advertisers are creeping toward being evil.

[YankeePoodle]

The advertisers are screwed esp. the ones who dont win the google bid, because they dont have another fallback venue or will they fallback on Microsoft Live. I dont think Google is any different from anyother company certain creative elements seperate it from others but beyond it is just a company.

I still dont get what is the value Yahoo is getting with Google deal they are doing the same mistake that they did before (i.e. outsource search to Google). Now on which verticals is Yahoo trying to rebuild itself and justify a rejection of $33 per share bid.

This deal is bad for every one, but google. I hope some company with great ideas comes and disrupts the whole search world technology.