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Back in February, we pointed out that Google was playing with fire in suggesting that a Microsoft-Yahoo merger would violate antitrust laws. It seemed fairly obvious that those statements would come back to haunt Google -- a company many others have been accusing of antitrust violations. And, indeed, even with Microsoft still trying to buy Yahoo, Microsoft is now making nearly identical antitrust claims against Google concerning its ad deal with Yahoo. It's all legal posturing, of course, in an attempt to get the government to annoy a competitor. As Declan McCullagh points out at the link above, if either company really believes that the other was violating antitrust laws, it's perfectly free to file a private antitrust lawsuit. But, instead, both companies are playing a game in trying to get the government to be a pest for the other -- a
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via Techdirt @ 21:34 15th Jul
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Congress waded into the escalating fight over the future of Yahoo Inc. on Tuesday, demanding to know whether the Internet company's advertising partnership with Google Inc., intended to keep Yahoo out of the clutches of Microsoft Corp., raises antitrust concerns.
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via Miami Herald @ 16:43 15th Jul
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Both the House and Senate Judiciary Committees were holding hearings Tuesday into whether Yahoo's advertising partnership with Google Inc. raises antitrust concerns. Yahoo made the deal as an alternative to the $47.5 billion acquisition offer it rejected from Microsoft Corp. — a decision that now has Yahoo in a tough fight with shareholders.
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via San Francisco Chronicle @ 16:43 15th Jul
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The ongoing US Congress investigation into online advertising seems to be having an effect on some of the companies as Google and Yahoo announced plans to allow users to opt out of targeted promotions on the Internet. While Yahoo announced a new one-click opt-out policy yesterday, Google made it possible to opt out of both Google and Doubleclick ad targeting with one click the day before. (See: US Congress investigates Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, over internet data collection)
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via Domain-B @ 7:06 10th Aug
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The ladies and (especially) gentlemen of Microsoft, Yahoo! and Google trooped into the US Congress to inform US politicians about how good and how bad and how anti-competitive the Yahoo!-Google advert deal is; Yahoo! got things off with a joke by their lawyer Michael Callahan that was pretty funny but disrespectful: ''With all due respect to Google, we have every expectation of fighting them and winning;'' Brad Smith, Microsoft solicitor, explained to the congresspeople that if search is the key to the Internet, as ''many'' believe, then ''this deal will put Google in a position to own that gateway and the information that flows through it''; so it's probably fair to say that when Microsoft takes over Yahoo!, this deal will follow the dodo and other extinct species.
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via Bangkok Post @ 21:23 29th Jul
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Philipp Lenssen writes "Google announced their very own browser project called Google Chrome — an announcement in the form of a comic book drawn by Scott McCloud, no less. Google says Google Chrome will be open source, include a new JavaScript virtual machine, include the Google Gears add-on by default, and put the tabs above the address bar (not below), among other things. I've also uploaded Google's comic book with all the details (details given from Google's perspective, anyway... let's see how this holds up). While Google provided the URL www.google.com/chrome there's nothing up there yet."
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via Slashdot @ 16:47 1st Sep
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Are you kidding me? Google getting rid of Google Page Creator, this must be a joke. No, it's for real. Google says they're going to be transitioning all Google Page Creator websites into their new Google Sites. Excuse me, but Google Sites doesn't come close to being as good as Google Page Creator. Why in the world would Google choose to keep the lesser of the two?
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via About @ 8:14 7th Aug
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Yahoo and Google both told Congress their advertising deal would be good for consumers, while Microsoft argued the opposite.Yahoo and Google both told Congress their advertising deal would be good for consumers, while Microsoft argued the opposite.
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via CBC @ 21:43 15th Jul
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WASHINGTON: Google and Microsoft will spar today at a congressional hearing called to examine whether Google's revenue-sharing deal with No 2 search rival Yahoo will harm competition. Google, with more than 60 per cent of the Web search market, and Yahoo, with 16.6 per cent, announced a deal on June 12 that would allow Yahoo to place Google advertisements on its site and collect the revenue.
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via Times of India @ 9:42 15th Jul
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The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has opened a formal antitrust investigation into the advertising partnership between Yahoo and Google, the Washington Post reported Wednesday. On June 12, Yahoo said it would run advertisements supplied by Google alongside search query results, a four-year deal estimated to bring Yahoo up to $800 million in revenue a year. "We are continuing to have cooperative discussions with the Department of Justice about this arrangement," Google said in a statement.
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via Addict3d.org @ 14:55 2nd Jul
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Google Inc. (GOOG) opened at 536.51. So far today, the stock has hit a low of 530.00 and a high of 540.38. GOOG is now trading at 532.20, down 2.53 (-0.47%). The stock hit its 52 week high of 747.24 in November and set its 52 week low of 412.11 in March. GOOG dropped at the beginning of this year, but has been stronger recently. Shares of Google have been slipping on news that the U.S. Justice Department has opened a formal antitrust investigation into a deal between Google and Yahoo (YHOO) to share some advertising revenue. Technical indicators for the stock are bullish but deteriorating while S&P gives GOOG a neutral 3 STARS (out of 5) hold rating. If you’re looking for a hedged play on this stock, consider a July bear-call credit spread above the $620 range.
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via Market Intelligence Center @ 8:20 3rd Jul
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WASHINGTON: Congress waded into the escalating fight over the future of Yahoo Inc. on Tuesday, demanding to know whether the Internet company's advertising partnership with Google Inc., intended to keep Yahoo out of the clutches of Microsoft Corp., raises antitrust concerns.
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via International Herald Tribune @ 16:46 15th Jul
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A proposed online search advertising deal between Yahoo and Google came under fire at a US senate hearing as Microsoft claimed that Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang had himself admitted that the agreement would hurt competition. Speaking before the senate's judiciary committee, Microsoft's general counsel Brad Smith recounted a June 8 meeting at the San Jose airport involving Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer, Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang and other company executives during which Yang allegedly said a Google-Yahoo deal would be anti-competitive.
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via Financial Express @ 5:43 17th Jul
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SAN FRANCISCO (Dow Jones) -- Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. are under pressure to have antitrust regulators promptly sign off on their proposed search-advertising pact, not least because of the potential for stricter enforcement under a new administration in Washington.
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via Lloyd's @ 23:34 1st Jul
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SAN FRANCISCO (Dow Jones) -- Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. are under pressure to have antitrust regulators promptly sign off on their proposed search-advertising pact, not least because of the potential for stricter enforcement under a new administration in Washington.
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via Nasdaq @ 20:47 1st Jul
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While the Microsoft bid to buy Yahoo is long gone, its results seem to be lingering, as both Microsoft and Yahoo have lost search market share to Google since the failed merger was announced nearly 6 months ago. The Hitwise numbers--showing Google with 70.7% market share--just underscore how far both Microsoft and Yahoo (nevermind Cuil) need to go in order to break into Google's search lead. That 70.7% number could be a turning point.
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via NetworkWorld @ 9:52 13th Aug
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WASHINGTON – The U.S. Congress began hearings to examine the potential antitrust implications of the recent deal between Google and Yahoo! that will allow Google to supply search ads to Yahoo!, reported AdAge.com. At the same time, about a dozen state attorneys have begun examining the ad deal as well.
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via Response Magazine @ 1:40 17th Jul
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Washington - The U.S. Department of Justice has announced a formal probe of Yahoo's (NASD: YHOO) proposed online advertising partnership with Google (NASD: GOOG), and will seek documents and information from third party companies with a vested interest in the sector, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday. Google and Yahoo had agreed to voluntarily delay the deal -- which would see Google serve ads against Yahoo search results -- while the Justice Dept. made an informal inquiry, "but a formal investigation signals that the department may have found some cause for concern," The Post reported.
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via Digital Media Wire @ 19:16 2nd Jul
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Yahoo! Inc. announced that it will offer users the ability to opt-out of customized advertising on Yahoo.com. This new option expands Yahoo!'s existing opt-out program for customized advertising served by Yahoo! on third party networks. Yahoo! announced the new opt-out capability as part of its response to a Congressional inquiry about customization sent to 33 companies from the House Energy and Commerce Committee. This new opt-out capability is expected to be available for consumers by the end of August. Users will be able to access the opt-out in the Yahoo! privacy center, which is linked on the home page and nearly every page on the Yahoo! network.
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via EContent Magazine @ 11:29 12th Aug
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Top legal counsel for Yahoo, Google, and Microsoft will address a Congressional hearing Tuesday, as lawmakers examine the Yahoo-Google search advertising agreement and its potential anticompetitive effects on the future of Internet advertising.
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via MONiTOR Today! @ 18:38 13th Jul
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mytrip points out news that Google's index of unique URLs has reached a milestone: one trillion. Google's blog provides some more information, noting, "The first Google index in 1998 already had 26 million pages, and by 2000 the Google index reached the one billion mark. Over the last eight years, we've seen a lot of big numbers about how much content is really out there. To keep up with this volume of information, our systems have come a long way since the first set of web data Google processed to answer queries. Back then, we did everything in batches: one workstation could compute the PageRank graph on 26 million pages in a couple of hours, and that set of pages would be used as Google's index for a fixed period of time. Today, Google downloads the web continuously, collecting updated page information and re-processing the entire web-l
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via Slashdot @ 10:55 26th Jul
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Top legal counsel for Yahoo, Google, and Microsoft will address a Congressional hearing Tuesday, as lawmakers examine the Yahoo-Google search advertising agreement and its potential anticompetitive effects on the future of Internet advertising.
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via CNET News.com @ 2:58 12th Jul
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Microsoft has approached Congress over what it claims are antitrust concerns regarding Yahoo's advertising deal with Google.
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via Infomatics @ 10:58 17th Jul
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Microsoft has approached Congress over what it claims are antitrust concerns regarding Yahoo's advertising deal with Google.
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via Computing.co.uk @ 5:43 17th Jul
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Microsoft dropped bid for all of Yahoo! on 8 June and launched a bid of USD 1 billion for Yahoo!'s search business and a share of future search advertising revenue. This proposal also included an USD billion investment in Yahoo! but required Yahoo! to commit to a 10-year exclusive arrangement, according to a letter sent to Yahoo! stockholders by CEO Jerry Yang and Chairman Roy Bostock. The letter explains the reasons for Yahoo! to sign a four year non-exclusive deal with Google for online advertising services and to end the talks with Microsoft, as their search-only hybrid proposal may have been helpful to Microsoft. The board and its advisers also carefully studied the financial impact of Microsoft's proposal and concluded that it would have provided no meaningful improvement to the operating cash flow.
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via Telecom.paper @ 6:07 28th Jun
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