Advertisers Protest Google-Yahoo! Deal

[JMcEntegart]

Following last week’s news that the European Union was considering jumping on the U.S. Department of Justice’s antitrust bandwagon, MarketWatch reports that The World Federation of Advertisers...

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[neiroatopelcc]

"likely diminish competition" is by my knowledge not against the law. Forming a monopoly might be, but the opposition fearing to not be competative can't really be an EU problem, but a business problem for the rivals. No wonder they're worried, but it'd be unfair to waste google and yahoo's time with an inquiry based on feelings rather than laws.

I live in EU, but I'd actually hope google would decide to block its services to eu countries or the like if EU tries to milk them like they did microsoft (and not apple, who do business the same way, just a decade slower)

 

[JonnyDough]

What competition? Isn't Google much more widely used than Yahoo by now? After all, Google is looking at buying Yahoo, that should speak for itself. Alternative to Google buying Yahoo: Yahoo goes out of business or comes up with some universe-altering innovations.