http://kara.allthingsd.com/20080715/miss-boomtown-goes-to-washington-of-course-for-microhoo-plus-google/ Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:08:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://kara.allthingsd.com/20080715/miss-boomtown-goes-to-washington-of-course-for-microhoo-plus-google/#comment-7876 Kara Visits the Senate Hearings on the Yahoo-Google Ad Search Deal | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD Wed, 28 Jan 2009 07:57:51 +0000 http://kara.allthingsd.com/?p=2353#comment-7876 [...] at the Senate hearings about the Yahoo-Google ad search deal this morning in Washington, D.C., let it be said that BoomTown is deeply dubious about whether it is a good thing for consumers and [...] [...] at the Senate hearings about the Yahoo-Google ad search deal this morning in Washington, D.C., let it be said that BoomTown is deeply dubious about whether it is a good thing for consumers and [...]

]]> http://kara.allthingsd.com/20080715/miss-boomtown-goes-to-washington-of-course-for-microhoo-plus-google/#comment-4464 Justice Department Eyes Challenging Google’s Web Dominance | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD Tue, 09 Sep 2008 02:16:58 +0000 http://kara.allthingsd.com/?p=2353#comment-4464 [...] In an egregious pot-kettle move, Microsoft has also been very vocal about stopping the deal, including at Congressional hearings in Washington, D.C. in mid-July, which I attended. [...] [...] In an egregious pot-kettle move, Microsoft has also been very vocal about stopping the deal, including at Congressional hearings in Washington, D.C. in mid-July, which I attended. [...]

]]> http://kara.allthingsd.com/20080715/miss-boomtown-goes-to-washington-of-course-for-microhoo-plus-google/#comment-3412 Glenn Manishin Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:45:12 +0000 http://kara.allthingsd.com/?p=2353#comment-3412 How does this deal give Google any more market power? If anything, allowing Yahoo! to sell ads served up by Google's technology will increase the supply of nuanced, tightly-targeted search ads, leading to downward pressure on Internet search ad rates. And as for the incentive to innovate, one has to believe that in a market economy, when one firm gives a chunk of its revenue to a larger rival it will have LOADS of incentives to innovate its way out of such an arrangement. Yahoo! may well be on a long, slow spiral to oblivion, but that has nothing to do with Google's "market power," since nothing Google does can make advertisers use search ads (versus banner, display and other Internet ads) or otherwise lock them in to AdSense. In the WSJ "free" market, firms get to reap the rewards of building better mousetraps; I think here Jerry Yang, despite his $$ billions, will have millions of reasons to go back to his engineering drawing board to out-think the folks from Mountain View. How does this deal give Google any more market power? If anything, allowing Yahoo! to sell ads served up by Google’s technology will increase the supply of nuanced, tightly-targeted search ads, leading to downward pressure on Internet search ad rates. And as for the incentive to innovate, one has to believe that in a market economy, when one firm gives a chunk of its revenue to a larger rival it will have LOADS of incentives to innovate its way out of such an arrangement. Yahoo! may well be on a long, slow spiral to oblivion, but that has nothing to do with Google’s “market power,” since nothing Google does can make advertisers use search ads (versus banner, display and other Internet ads) or otherwise lock them in to AdSense. In the WSJ “free” market, firms get to reap the rewards of building better mousetraps; I think here Jerry Yang, despite his $$ billions, will have millions of reasons to go back to his engineering drawing board to out-think the folks from Mountain View.

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