mdm-adphOther notable examples of favorable monopolies were those that used to exist in the oil industry (about a hundred years ago), airline industry and the telephone industry.

In one example of Standard's aggressive practices, a rival oil association tried to build an oil pipeline to overcome Standard's virtual boycott of its competitors. In response, the railroad company at Rockefeller's direction denied the association permission to run the pipeline across railway land,[citation needed] forcing consortium staff to laboriously decant the oil into barrels, carry them over the railway crossing in carts, and pump the oil manually into the pipeline on the other side. When Rockefeller learned of this tactic, he instructed the railway company to park empty rail cars across the line, thereby preventing the carts from crossing his property.

RavenasI think what they are talking about is that Yahoo and Google are the two main advertisers on the internet and they are combining...In my opinion the government should AT THE LEAST look into this merger. Why? Because it's not just regular joes who search, certain people like my family's company use Yahoo for advertising because they are cheaper than Google...Now I'm not so sure we will have a choice on competitive pricing.

Easy Rhinoif google and yahoo merge then there will be even more drive for a company like microsoft to get competetive with online advertising. and there are a lot of smaller advertisers who would easily match what you were getting.

RavenasYes, but Yahoo and Google are the number one search engines. The majority of the consumer base is on one of the two.

Ehstiilol, MSN over google...

idk, to me its just, with MSN and yahoo and all those other engines they have 53458425463876345364 advertisements and stories and all this crap everywhere.

but you go to google and its a simple text box to type what you want. its simple.

btarunrIsn't this a rude nut-kick to Microsoft? :laugh:

Easy Rhinoif google and yahoo merge then there will be even more drive for a company like microsoft to get competetive with online advertising. and there are a lot of smaller advertisers who would easily match what you were getting.

DangleIt's a nutkick to Microsoft, yes, but Google will have your nuts in a lockbox.



Let's pretend you own a company.

Google guarantees your ads will be seen on One Million Trillion web pages.
Ads'R'Us guarantees your ads will be seen on one Thousand web pages for the same price.

Who would you adveritse with? We need 2 or more big companies at eachother's throats slashing prices and innovating technology.

Anyway, whatever happens, I'm glad it's a US company that will own the internet since it's quite necessary for a global economy.