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MS Urges Antitrust Scuttling of DoubleClick Deal

Posted by kdawson on from the pot-and-kettle dept.

Microsoft contends that Google's $3.1 billion deal to buy DoubleClick would hurt competition in the online advertising market. And Microsoft expects AT&T, Yahoo, and other companies to join them next week in protesting the proposed sale.

2 of 234 comments (clear)

  1. OMIGOD! by Sockatume · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    They killed irony!

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    No kidding!!! What do you say at this point?
  2. Can't be all bad by ajs318 · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    If Google buy up DoubleClick, eventually all the doubleclick URLs will change to google URLs. Then I will be able to take a line out of my Squid configuration file!

    acl adverts url_regex doubleclick
    acl adverts url_regex falkag
    acl adverts url_regex googlesyndication\.com
    acl adverts url_regex intellitxt
    ...
    http_access deny adverts
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    Je fume. Tu fumes. Nous fûmes!