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Justice Dept To Investigate Google-Yahoo Deal

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the no-surprise-here dept.

Anonymous Oddity writes "The Washington Post is reporting that the Justice Department's investigating the Yahoo-Google advertising deal. Obviously the deal controls a massive portion of the internet advertising market. US Antitrust law isn't entirely intuitive, but it does tend to frown on large deals between companies that operate on the same level if those deals can be interpreted as restrictive of trade."

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  1. Obviously by kiehlster · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Wake me up when they actually say that Google violated antitrust law. This action was so obvious that I wonder if any /.er didn't already assume this would happen.