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California Democrats Oppose DOJ Suit to Halt Google-Yahoo Deal
Google Watch — ... , as well as Yahoo's site about the pact, Eshoo, et al., argue that the agreement is not a merger, so neither Google nor Yahoo have exclusive control of online advertising in the deal. OK, that's an obvious point. But they then add: ...

Information War Continues: Yahoo Launches a Site to Explain Google Advertising Deal
Profy — ... a very similar move of its own: launching a special website to make its own opinion on the deal clear to everyone who would be willing to listen. Yahoo claims that the goal for the site is to help everyone interested sift through the facts about the deal and understand the truth - or at least the truth as viewed in the Yahoo headquarters. ...

Kohl (Amazingly) Doesn't Want to Smash the Google-Yahoo Deal
Google Watch — ... 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 interesting meat is ...