MS Urges Antitrust Scuttling of DoubleClick Deal

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.

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Pot kettle black.

[Obsi]

This is a severe case of the pot callling the kettle black. Poor little convicted monopolist is afraid of losing business. I don't feel the least bit sorry for them.

Re:I have a very bad feeling about this

[Wylfing]

According to Alexa, the top three websites in the world are, in order, 1) Yahoo, 2) msn and 3) Google.

I thought it was well understood that MSN isn't being "visited" with intentional clicks. It just happens to be the default home page of 100 million people who don't know they can change it. If someone wrote a virus that changed everyone's IE home page to something other than MSN, it would fall out of the top 10 easily, and maybe off the charts altogether. I have never seen anyone try to go to MSN for any reason, or even heard of anyone wanting to.

Google sure seems to be the search engine of choice among geeks, but what about Joe Random and Suzie Sixpack?

Ah, yes, Suzie Sixpack. I dated her in college, when she was known as Suzie Kegger. In any case, the point is that although many people will use whatever search box pops up on their screen (see point above; this is why MSN gets any search volume at all), Google has a shocking amount of mindshare among the general public. I am surprised frequently by people I perceive to be non-technical talking about "Googling" things.