Yahoogle! Deal Ditched Hours Before DOJ Could Cry Antitrust

[JMcEntegart]

New information about the long since abandoned proposal that Google and Yahoo! get-together for a lucrative ad deal has come to light with an attorney associated with the case saying the Mountain View search giant backed out in the nick of time

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[hellwig]

Who gives a crap about online ads? Online ads are not consumer goods, so who cares how many firms there are selling ads, or who deals with who? The governments role is supposed to protect the people from corporate greed, not greedy corporations from other greedy corporations. Quite frankly, if there were fewer online advertisers, it would be easier for me to block annoying ads. It's not like I ever click those ads anyway. I don't see the value of a dancing space alien telling me to refinance my non-existant mortgage.

 

[Guest]

Yahoogle? Goohoo sounds better!

 

[Tindytim]

Google > feces > Yahoo

Now that I got that out of the way, I agree with hellwig. But then again, if the government did that, they would be way to efficient, and have to spend/use less money.

And as for the name "Google>Yahoo", is the best in my opinion. It has both names, while still showing who's on top.