MSN tried doing a buyout over Yahoo awhile back. As we all know that buyout didn’t happen as Yahoo said “no”. Yahoo soon turned around and started talks with Google. Wait, isn’t Google big enough already with its’ many different products such as Search, Google Earth, Youtube.com, Googlemaps, and loads of other cool or helpful products?

In an effort to pour much needed income into yahoo and to make Google that much more of an internet Giant, these 2 companies agreed last month to an advertising partnership. This partnership would allow Google to place search ads on yahoo’s pages. “In a deal Yahoo called an $800 million annual revenue opportunity. “ quoted by reuters.com.

If you agreed earlier that yeah, Google is big enough and since they already have over 60% of web searches under their belt that someone needs to stop them. Then you are not alone as it can be seen at Washington Reuters, that The U.S. Justice Department has opened a formal antitrust investigation into a deal between Google and Yahoo. Investigators are demanding paper work from both sides of the table now as, “formal investigation signals that the Justice Department may have found some cause for concern”, The Washington Post said.

“We are confident that the arrangement is beneficial to competition, but we are not going to discuss the details of the process,” Google spokesman Adam Kovacevich said in an e-mail to Reuters.

So will Big brother let these two internet giants to merge into an alliance or will Uncle Sam step in like they have done in the past in regards to Microsoft’s numerous monopolies? It has even been reported that Microsoft is the one that piqued the interest of this partnership for big brother to see. For Revenge? I doubt that, as anyone should be worried, when two power houses like Google and Yahoo talk partnership (as many webmasters lively hood depends on these companies). The US Government was no exemption. Could this show that Google may be getting to big for its’ britches and that the Justice department could rule that Google has to divide it company into smaller companies? Time will tell, as we watch the story unfold throughout the next few months.

Tags: google, Merger, Partnership, Yahoo

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