Antitrust Panels Probe Google-Yahoo Agreement

摘要

Members of the antitrust panels of the House and Senate Judiciary committees probed the competitive landscape of search-based Internet advertising during a hearing doubleheader on July 15, expressing concerns that a proposed advertising partnership arrangement between Yahoo, Inc., and Google, Inc., could give Google too much control over the relevant market - although there was some disagreement as to what the relevant market might be. Representatives of Yahoo, Google, and Microsoft Corp. presented their arguments on the antitrust implications of the proposed arrangement in the morning to the Senate Judiciary Committee's subcommittee on antitrust, competition policy, and consumer rights. In the afternoon, they made virtually identical presentations to the House Judiciary Committee's antitrust task force.