Yesterday, BoomTown went to Washington, D.C. to see lawyers from Microsoft, Yahoo and Google face off in Senate hearings about the controversial search advertising outsourcing deal recently struck between Yahoo and Google.
Here’s a video of BoomTown chatting up Google’s Chief Legal Officer David Drummond, Microsoft’s General Counsel Brad Smith and Michael Callahan, general counsel for Yahoo, right after the Senate hearings were over.
Sitting at the Senate hearings about the Yahoo-Google ad search deal this morning in Washington, D.C., let it first be said that BoomTown is deeply dubious of whether that it is a good thing for consumers and advertisers, as both Internet companies have asserted.
But this was my most certain conclusion:
The worst case scenario is actually for politicians to meddle in the Internet space with their largely Web-ignorant mitts.
But that’s just me!
Kara Swisher started covering digital issues for The Wall Street Journal's San Francisco bureau in 1997 and also wrote the BoomTown column about the sector. With Walt Mossberg, she co-produces and co-hosts D: All Things Digital, a major high-tech and media conference. Read more »
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