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California Democrats Oppose DOJ Suit to Halt Google-Yahoo Deal
Google Watch — ... Ellen Tauscher, Sam Farr, Mike Thompson, Mike Honda, Doris Matsui, Jackie Speier, George Miller, Lynn Woolsey and Barbara Lee joined Eshoo and Lofgren in signing the letter, so we know Google and Yahoo successfully lobbied their home state Democrats for support of the deal. Google provides a lot of jobs for Californians and is a source of pride in the state, standing for all that is not evil about the high-tech sector. Clearly eating up rhetoric on the Web site Google created regarding the deal, as well as Yahoo's site about the pact, Eshoo, et ...

Kohl (Amazingly) Doesn't Want to Smash the Google-Yahoo Deal
Google Watch — ... to "closely examine" the deal, which will enable Google paid search terms to run alongside Yahoo results where it makes sense from a financial perspective. Kohl isn't begging the DOJ to crush the deal the way Microsoft has, and it reads as though Kohl, unlike other parties, isn't being unduly influenced by Microsoft's arguments. That's a credit to the independent nature of his committee. Kohl spends the bulk of his letter outlining what Google and Yahoo already have ad nauseum in public forums and on special Web sites. The ...

Odd, the Parental Controls on Sen. Kohl’s Copy of IE Have Been Set to Block YahooGoogleFacts.com
Digital Daily — ... This isn’t the first time Kohl has raised concerns about the long-term implications of Yahoo’s proposed deal with Google. And it almost certainly won’t be the last. Back in September, he worried aloud that the partnership might reduce Yahoo to “nothing more than the newest satellite in the Google orbit.” And nothing much has changed since that time, except for Google’s increased advocacy of the deal on the new “Yahoo-Google Facts” site. ...

Yahoo Shares Reach Five-Year Low
WebProNews Feed — ... reported that in a note to clients on Thursday, Collins Stewart analyst Sandeep Aggarwal wrote the he expects Yahoo's quarterly profit and sales to fall short of consensus estimates, because of "economic headwinds and turmoil in the financial markets, resulting in weaker display ad revenues."Meanwhile Yahoo's search advertising deal with Google has been put on hold while the Justice Department reviews the agreement for possible antitrust violations. Yahoo will report its fiscal third-quarter results on October 21. ...

Google and Yahoo! Talk Volume Caps with Justice Department
WebProNews Feed — ... the entire world of the same. Google, especially, has gone to great lengths to emphasize that the deal would not be a threat to competition. Until recently, they even said they'd be going forward with deal regardless of whether or not the Department of Justice had finished their investigation. They launched a website completely dedicated to ...

Google Actively Seeking Testimonials From Advertisers?
WebProNews Feed — ... People will call Google evil for this and criticize the move, but I can't say I really blame the company for trying to get as much ammo as possible. They've got a lot invested into this deal and advertisers speaking in favor of it would be some welcome firepower for them in their battle with the Justice Department (and all who oppose the deal). Google has been working very hard lately to convince people that the deal's legit . Reverse Mortgage Guides allegedly spends $100,000 a year on AdWords campaigns and also advertises with Yahoo, so it's clear that Google's trying to ...

Yahoo Continues Quest for Relevancy
WebProNews Feed — ... platform. In fact, some think they might even be doing it to emphasize to critics of the deal, that they are still serious about their own advertising endeavors, and are not just bowing down to the forces of Google. Google itself has emphasized time and time again that this deal is good for competition, and will not hamper Yahoo's advertising offering. Yahoo has been relatively quiet on the issue in comparison, leaving most of the defensive tactics up to Google. Google has put up a website dedicated to the "facts" about the deal , and their lawyers are even calling ...

Google, Yahoo Ad Deal Unlikely
WebProNews Feed — ... Justice Department regulators reviewed the controversial partnership for antitrust violations. Under the terms of the Google-Yahoo deal, Google would provide some of the advertising displayed when the Yahoo search engine is used. The two companies would share the revenue. The amount of advertising outsourced would be at the discretion of Yahoo. Google has gone to great lengths to defend and explain the proposed deal with Yahoo. It has launched a page specifically dedicated to the " Facts about the deal " along with a number of other subcategories that argue in favor of such a ...

Google, Yahoo Offer New Ad Deal
WebProNews Feed — ... Seek DOJ approval Google and Yahoo have offered to decrease the size of their proposed search advertising deal in an effort to receive approval from federal regulators. Google, Yahoo Offer New Ad Deal The newly proposed deal has been shortened to two years from 10 and limits the amount of revenue that Yahoo can receive from Google to no more than 25 percent, and allows Google advertisers to opt out of appearing on Yahoo, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal. The previous Google/Yahoo ad deal had no caps on it and the amount of advertising outsourced was at the ...

Google abandons Yahoo deal
VentureBeat — ... In June we announced an advertising agreement with Yahoo! that gave Yahoo! the option of using Google to provide ads on its websites (and its publisher partners’ sites) in the U.S. and Canada. At the same time, both companies agreed to ...

Google Axes Yahoo Deal
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs — ... , Nov 5, 2008 10:45 AM [image] Google wimps out and has decided that it is no longer interested in teaming up with Yahoo in an advertising deal that was first announced back in June. Here is, in their own words, what Google and Yahoo each have to say about the matter. The advertising partnership proposed by the two companies seemed a reach at best. Given the power both Google and Yahoo wield in online advertising, many questioned whether such a deal would ever be approved by the government. Turns out, Google didn't really want to fight the matter. Here are the press releases ...

Google Backs Out of Yahoo Deal
Contentinople: — In June we announced an advertising agreement with Yahoo! that gave Yahoo! the option of using Google to provide ads on its websites (and its publisher partners' sites) in the U.S. and Canada. At the same time, both companies agreed to ...