Antitrust regulators would fight a Yahoo-Google combination

by billso on Friday, 18 April 2008

Accord­ing to this Reuters arti­cle, a Yahoo-Google com­bi­na­tion would face more antitrust scrutiny than a Yahoo-Microsoft merger:

Google held a 59.2 per­cent share of the U.S. Web search mar­ket in Feb­ru­ary, com­pared with Yahoo’s 21.6 per­cent and Microsoft’s 9.6 per­cent, accord­ing to research firm com­Score.

Those num­bers would give a Yahoo-Google com­bi­na­tion an 80.8 per­cent mar­ket share.

Com­bine Yahoo and Microsoft and their mar­ket share is only 31.2 per­cent, which is less than Google’s numbers.

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Tagged as: Google, government, merger, Microsoft, search, USA, Yahoo

  • http://billso.com billso

    This post was men­tioned by Stephen Gro­cer on the Wall Street Journal’s web site ear­lier today. Gro­cer inter­viewed Edward A. Deib­ert and Celia P. Van Gorder of Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin regard­ing a pos­si­ble Google-Yahoo deal, pos­si­bly based upon “exclu­sive licens­ing of intel­lec­tual prop­erty” — the two com­pa­nies’ search and adver­tis­ing technologies.

  • http://billso.com billso

    I’ve got a long dis­cus­sion of the Clear­wire joint ven­ture in this post. Google is a par­tic­i­pant in this WiMAX business.

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