Google Was Three Hours Away From Being Charged As A Monopolist

Re:Google Was Three Hours Away From Being Charged As A Monop... by mattmaroon on Wednesday December 03, 2008 @11:51PM (#385328)

I don't know why they ever went forward with this. When your market share is 70% and climbing, you really have to watch out for these sorts of things. The relatively minor profits they would have made from Yahoo aren't worth making anyone in the DoJ think twice about you.

I guess when it came down to it, they decided that taking that risk was better than Microsoft ending up with Yahoo, which makes Yahoo's decision not to sell even more ludicrous. As Sun Tzu said (loosely paraphrased) figure out what your opponent wants you to do and then do the opposite.

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Re:Google Was Three Hours Away From Being Charged As A Monop... by gojomo on Thursday December 04, 2008 @12:54AM (#385367)

Google may never have expected the move to pass antitrust review. Even as a feint, this proposal sufficed to drive MS away from Yahoo, which Yahoo's management at the time also wanted.

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Re:Google Was Three Hours Away From Being Charged As A Monop... by mattmaroon on Thursday December 04, 2008 @02:19AM (#385416)

Yeah, I don't know. Probably. Just seems risky to even put the notion in the DoJ's collective head that you need watching for monopoly concerns. Maybe less risky than having a combined Microhoo competitor, idk. If I'm Yahoo and I think that one through, it would make me want to sell more, but then I guess I would have said "sold" the minute the original offer came in.

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