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Feds Probing Google-Yahoo Deal

Posted Jul 2, 08 9:24 AM CDT in Technology,  Business 

(Newser) – Google’s agreement to provide Yahoo with advertising for some of its searches in the US and Canada has prompted the Justice Department to launch a formal antitrust investigation into the deal, the Washington Post reports. "They don't do it without having identified significant issues," one lawyer said of the action, which goes beyond the voluntary review the search giant expected.

The feds plan to demand documents from Google, Yahoo, and other large Internet and media players. Critics say Google’s deal with Yahoo would give it a monopoly in Internet advertising by giving it control of search advertising, one of the Internet’s biggest money makers; a Justice spokesman would not comment when asked if Microsoft would be asked for information in the investigation.

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This Jan. 7, 2008 file photo shows the Yahoo tent at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas.   (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, file)
A Google sign inside Google headquarters is seen in Mountain View, Calif., in this May 30, 2007 file photo.   (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, file)
Google Co-founder and President of Technology Sergey Brin.   (AP Photo)
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