Can Google's public stance be a hint at how it will try and fight the deal with the DOJ?
Google’s comment on the Microsoft-Yahoo search deal was to note that it reduced competition from three players in the market to two. Methinks this hints that Google will be pushing the DOJ to review the agreement, and since the DOJ never actually seems to deny any deal, Google is likely hoping for some significant strings to be attached to approval. Good luck with that.
Reports a story from the IDG News Service: If Yahoo adopts Microsoft’s Bing search engine in place of its own, that will reduce the search market from three major players to two, said Marissa Mayer, Google’s vice president of search and user experience. She said several groups at Google were still studying the proposed partnership, which is expected to close next year, but that it might reduce innovation. “Everyone runs faster in a race where there are more people,” Mayer said in a brief interview at the AlwaysOn Stanford Summit in Palo Alto, California.
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