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 Inquiry on Search PartnershipPosted on Jul 2, 2008
A recent advertising partnership between search giant Google and competitor Yahoo has antitrust authorities worried. Not only does a Google-Yahoo deal look ridiculous in name, but critics (such as Microsoft) say the partnership would consolidate Google’s control of Internet search ad revenue to a whopping 90 percent of U.S. market share. The Guardian: US anti-trust regulators have opened an investigation into Yahoo’s search advertising partnership with Google to examine if the $800m (£403m) a year deal restricts competition in the market. Justice Department investigators behind the anti-trust probe will take evidence from Google, Yahoo and other large companies in the internet and media sectors, according to a report in today’s Washington Post. Google controls 60% of the total number of internet searches made in the US, while Yahoo is the second ranked player accounting for 16.6%. Last month Yahoo struck a 10-year deal to allow Google to put some search advertising next to its search listings.
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By geoffspear, July 2, 2008 at 11:44 am Link to this comment
It’s ridiculous to hear Microsoft complaining about how they’ll be hurt by a monopoly. Poetic justice would be MS being driven out of business by Google and Yahoo.
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