Antitrust regulators worried about the new Yahoo-Microsoft partnership “should relax,” said Alexandra Petri in The Washington Post. It’ll be “‘anti-competitive’ only in the sense that it could backfire against Microhoo’s ability to compete” against Google. The two tech giants' taking on Google may sound like an unfair fight, but it’s like “my grandparents ganging up on The Rock in an alleyway.” On the off chance they do well, it’s good for competition.
“There is no way Google will not be the primary beneficiary” of the Microhoo deal, said John Dvorak in MarketWatch. Why? With Yahoo search gone, Google will only have one main competitor. Or look at it this way: If “a big bully is beating up two small kids to take their quarters,” the kids won’t be any better off if only one of them holds all the quarters.
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