Thursday, July 17th, 2008
Microsoft senior VP-general counsel Brad Smith told the US Senate and House judiciary committees:
“Never before in the history of advertising has one company been in a position to control prices on up to 90% of advertising in a single medium. Not in television, not in radio, not in publishing. It should not happen on the Internet.”
Of course Microsoft is spewing that they “missed the Internet” back in the 90’s, failed to grab any substantial advertising market share during the dot com boom and then failed again in 2008 with the Yahoo deal.
So if the US government say no to Google, then why wouldn’t it be anticompetitive for Microsoft to own Yahoo? What’s this mean for domainers? Two players owning the entire advertising market! Can you say collusion kids? Ok - it means lower payout rates and a HUGE barrier to entry for a 3rd force.
Tags: brad smith, google, internet advertising, microsoft, yahoo
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