{"id":4473,"date":"2008-07-16T13:10:54","date_gmt":"2008-07-16T20:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/house-anti-trust-task-force-hearing-on-google\/"},"modified":"2008-07-16T13:10:54","modified_gmt":"2008-07-16T20:10:54","slug":"house-anti-trust-task-force-hearing-on-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/16\/house-anti-trust-task-force-hearing-on-google\/","title":{"rendered":"House Anti-Trust Task Force Hearing on Google"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tC-Span has the archived video of the Conyers hearing on <a href=\"http:\/\/c-span.org\/\">Google&#8217;s proposed ad deal with Yahoo:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>House Judiciary Committee Hearing on Internet Competition<br \/>\nRecently, a number of transactions and potential transactions have raised anti-competitive and privacy concerns in the field of online advertising, online search, and web platform interoperability. Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) chairs a House Judiciary Antitrust &amp; Competition Policy Task Force hearing to examine the state of competition with respect to various online markets.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s quite long but as a bonus it&#8217;s also quite boring. Google maintains there will be no price-fixing because ads are sold in auctions, Microsoft points out that the auctions have a floor price and a subjective quality index. <\/p>\n<p>The smoking gun was produced: Google proposed this deal to Yahoo the day after Microsoft made their tender offer. <\/p>\n<p>Google&#8217;s girl, Zoe Lofgren, tried to spin the old &#8220;two guys in a garage can take Google down&#8221; myth, but I doubt anyone with a room temperature IQ is buying that nonsense. <\/p>\n<p>There was one wild card on the panel, the Ask The Builder guy who seemed overly fond of the sound of his own voice. <\/p>\n<p>Of all the members, Issa gets it the best. And he should, because he actually started and built a successful technology business before going to Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Lofgren and Conyers &#8211; what can I say without being rude?\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>C-Span has the archived video of the Conyers hearing on Google&#8217;s proposed ad deal with Yahoo: House Judiciary Committee Hearing on Internet Competition Recently, a number of transactions and potential transactions have raised anti-competitive and privacy concerns in the field of online advertising, online search, and web platform interoperability. Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) chairs a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/16\/house-anti-trust-task-force-hearing-on-google\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;House Anti-Trust Task Force Hearing on Google&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google","category-internet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-1a9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}