{"id":4904,"date":"2008-09-08T20:20:27","date_gmt":"2008-09-09T03:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/our-efforts-bearing-fruit\/"},"modified":"2008-09-08T20:20:27","modified_gmt":"2008-09-09T03:20:27","slug":"our-efforts-bearing-fruit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/08\/our-efforts-bearing-fruit\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Efforts Bearing Fruit"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tRegular readers are aware of my Op-Ed criticizing Google’s rapacious ways<\/a>, written for the San Francisco Chronicle<\/a> and subsequently re-printed in the Washington Times<\/a>. That doesn’t happen too often, BTW. The Wall St. Journal reports that the Justice Department is paying attention:<\/a><\/p>\n

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has quietly hired one of the nation’s best-known litigators, former Walt Disney Co. vice chairman Sanford Litvack, for a possible antitrust challenge to Google Inc.’s growing power in advertising.<\/p>\n

Mr. Litvack’s hiring is the strongest signal yet that the U.S. is preparing to take court action against Google and its search-advertising deal with Yahoo Inc. The two companies combined would account for more than 80% of U.S. online-search ads.<\/p>\n

Google shares tumbled 5.5%, or $24.30, to $419.95 in 4 p.m. trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market, while Yahoo shares were up 18 cents to $18.26.<\/p>\n

For weeks, U.S. lawyers have been deposing witnesses and issuing subpoenas for documents to support a challenge to the deal, lawyers close to the review said. Such efforts don’t always mean a case will be brought, however.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

An 80% market share in search ads is not good for democracy, of course, so we applaud the impending suit in advance.<\/p>\n

Technorati Tags: net neutrality<\/a>, Google<\/a>, monopoly<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Regular readers are aware of my Op-Ed criticizing Google’s rapacious ways, written for the San Francisco Chronicle and subsequently re-printed in the Washington Times. That doesn’t happen too often, BTW. The Wall St. Journal reports that the Justice Department is paying attention: WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has quietly hired one of the nation’s best-known … Continue reading “Our Efforts Bearing Fruit”<\/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":[35,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-net-neutrality"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-1h6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4904","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=4904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}