Google, Yahoo, and the Elephant In the Room 123
CWmike writes "Linda Rosencrance reports that despite assurances from Google and Yahoo that their online advertising deal doesn't need regulatory approval, the two companies should not be too quick to dismiss Microsoft's influence on Capitol Hill. Andrew Frank, an analyst at Gartner, said both Yahoo and Google will benefit from the deal, but he also said Microsoft will do everything in its power to bring the arrangement to a screeching halt. 'Expect Microsoft to challenge it and come back aggressively with some search plans of its own,' he said. Rob Enderle, of the Enderle Group, said Microsoft is a formidable opponent and knows how to play politics. 'Without Microsoft, this probably would stand up to regulatory scrutiny,' Enderle said. 'But Microsoft has increased its presence on Capitol Hill significantly ... and there are restraint of trade issues, so by the nature of Google's size and because Microsoft is going to be pounding on a lot of doors, I think this is going to be a problem.'"
Enderle is mostly full of shit (Score:4, Informative)
Rob Enderele (Score:5, Informative)
ah, thats where
http://jeremy.linuxquestions.org/2007/09/24/sco-linux-and-rob-enderle-a-conclusion/ [linuxquestions.org]
http://daringfireball.net/2003/12/enderle [daringfireball.net]
http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/34004/128 [tgdaily.com]
As far as i'm concerned, that man has ZERO credibility.
Re:Enderle is mostly full of shit (Score:5, Informative)
... because more likely than not, the atmospheric conditions would have changed enough to make the sky bright green.
Some details. (Score:1, Informative)
A related story talked about the odd assortment of fake groups opposed to these deals [latimes.com].
That's from the same paper that covered the spamming of Senators by a M$ PR firm against the anti-trust trail. You might also remember them claiming to represent blind people opposing ODF. That spamming fooled no one at the time, so you wonder why they keep trying to pull the same stupid trick.
I think we can trust Enderle (Score:2, Informative)
to say exactly what Microsoft wants him to say. We might not believe regulators will do the same.