Microsoft Speaks Out Over Google-Yahoo Deal
April 9, 2008
Microsoft Corp. made a statement on Wednesday night in which they accused the new ad deal between Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. of creating a greatly reducing the competition in the advertising market when juxtaposed with the proposal that Microsoft had put forward for the acquisition of Yahoo.
The statement from Microsoft said that any deal between Google and Yahoo would place 90% of the search advertising market in the control of Google.
According to the statement, Microsoft has not given up completely as they intend to consider their options further.
A statment was released earlier in the week from Yahoo, in which they announced they will be initiating limited testing of the AdSense for Search application made by Google.