Google’s Schmidt: Independent Yahoo Still Important To Competition
Sep 21, 2009 at 9:52am ET by Danny Sullivan
Last year, Google and Yahoo were denied a deal that would have left Yahoo with its own search technology, after the US Department Of Justice rattled its anti-trust saber. This year, Yahoo's pursuing a deal to sell off its tech to Microsoft. While Google CEO Eric Schmidt sees his company's former deal as "part of history," he said Google still feels an "independent" Yahoo is important.
Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz is banking heavily on the idea that Yahoo can stay competitive in search even without its own search technology. I wondered if Schmidt agreed, given how much he knows Google spend [...]
Filed in: Google & Yahoo Ad Deal, Microsoft & Yahoo Search Deal, Top News
Wired: Monopoly, Microsoft And The Anti-Google ‘Conspiracy’
Jan 20, 2009 at 7:29am ET by Greg Sterling
Wired offers a fascinating, if sensational, account of the "plot" by Microsoft, its allies and its operatives to sew discontent over Google's proposed paid search deal with Yahoo: The Plot to Kill Google. The article presents Microsoft as the driving force, along with other allies, behind an effort to stop Google's further dominance in search (via the Yahoo deal) after its own failed bid for Yahoo.
Here's an excerpt:
[John Kelly, Microsoft's head of strategic relations,] sprang into action, activating his company's vast Washington infrastructure.Microsoft's protracted antitrust battles had [...]
Filed in: Features: Analysis, Google & Yahoo Ad Deal, Google: Critics, Google: General, Google: Partnerships, Microsoft & Yahoo Search Deal
Google Cancelled Yahoo Search Deal To Avoid “Monopoly” Designation
Dec 5, 2008 at 11:57am ET by Greg Sterling
Fearing a protracted legal battle, damage to its reputation/brand and perhaps even to its stock price, Google abruptly pulled out of the proposed Yahoo paid search deal. It was revealed at the time that the US Justice Department was planning to file an action against the deal. Now in an interview in AmLaw Daily, the attorney spearheading the potential case against Google, Sanford Litvack discusses what happened.
Here are some excerpts from the article/interview:
"We were going to file the complaint at a certain time during the day," says Litvack, who rejoins Hogan & Hartson today. [...]
Filed in: Google & Yahoo Ad Deal, Google: Critics, Google: Legal
Microsoft Says It’s Open To Search-Only Deal With Yahoo
Nov 19, 2008 at 3:57pm ET by Greg Sterling
Coming just 24 hours after the resignation of Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is saying publicly that Redmond is "open" to a "search collaboration" with Yahoo but not a total acquisition of the Sunnyvale company. The Wall Street Journal and Seattle PI report on the remarks, made during a Microsoft shareholder meeting. Meanwhile, Valleywag says that Yahoo has lost Sean Suchter, a key search executive, to Microsoft.
The search collaboration that Ballmer referred to would presumably be similar to the search (as opposed to acquisition) deal previously offered to Yahoo -- esse [...]
Filed in: Google & Yahoo Ad Deal, Microsoft & Yahoo Search Deal
Yahoo Invites Another Bid From Microsoft
Nov 6, 2008 at 7:39am ET by Greg Sterling
Everyone at Yahoo must be totally exhausted -- perhaps most of all CEO Jerry Yang. It's probably apprpriate to now use modifiers such as "beleaguered" or "embattled" to describe Yang. Mike Arrington has called for Yang to be replaced, as have others before him. After the termination of the Google paid search deal yesterday, more people will likely be doing the same.
Yahoo has many initiatives in various stages of execution and still has tremendous value to the consumer public (consumers don't care who the CEO of Yahoo is). But if Yahoo were a parliamentary regime, there would be a vote of " [...]
Filed in: Google & Yahoo Ad Deal, Microsoft & Yahoo Search Deal, Top News
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