Microsoft testifies Google-Yahoo "anti-competitive"

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Looks like Crybaby Microskank is having a hissy fit over Yahoo
supporting ads on Google. Microskank's legal counsel Brad Smith is such
a whiny assed girlie bitch.

Cuss and discuss, folks, especially all ye Windroids. Let's see who can
be the biggest crybaby bitches.

Microsoft testifies Google-Yahoo "anti-competitive"

Tuesday, July 15th

Microsoft today argued that US House and Senate Judiciary Committees
that the proposed Google/Yahoo deal, claiming that Yahoo's agreement to
support ads through a non-exclusive deal is anti-competitive and would
allegedly hurt innovation. The legal counsel for Microsoft, Brad Smith,
expresses fears that Google would control as much as 90 percent of
online advertising, allowing it to dictate prices and force companies to
advertise through it for proper exposure. He also warns that Google
could potentially have a monopoly on Internet services.

"If search is the gateway to the Internet, and most believe that it is,
this deal will put Google in a position to own that gateway and the
information that flows through it," Smith claims.

He likewise assumes that Google would increase its rates and that the up
to $800 million of income Yahoo hopes to generate from its deal would
come only at the expense of companies hoping to advertise rather than
competitors in online ads.

The specter of Google as an all-seeing Internet monitor is also raised
as he warns that Google would allegedly have a view of nearly all online
Internet activities and effectively put its own "national Internet
policy" in place, according to Smith. He doesn't explain how a deal that
is limited to ads and instant messaging integration would create this
effect.

Google and Yahoo in the past said they have worked to create a deal they
believe wouldn't run afoul of US antitrust laws. The current agreement
would allow other advertisers, including Microsoft, to join in the
program.

Microsoft's complaint is timed just weeks before a crucial August 1st
shareholders meeting at Yahoo that will likely decide the fate of the
search engine firm, with investor Carl Icahn receiving Microsoft support
in his attempt to oust Yahoo's directors in a vote and make it easier
for Microsoft to buy either Yahoo's search business or the entire
company.
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