Bad news will follow the Yahoo!-Google deal says Microsoft rep

At a House Judiciary Committee Task Force on Competition Policy and Antitrust Laws meeting on internet competition, Brad Smith, Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary for Microsoft Corporation lists four ways in which the potential Yahoo!-Google deal would be detrimental to the market. He says that the agreement will concentrate the power over search advertising, decrease choices for advertisers, increase prices, and threaten online privacy. (1:46)
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Yahoo!-Google deal good for the economy says Google rep

David C. Drummond, Senior Vice President for Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer for Google, says that the Yahoo!-Google deal on search advertising will increase competition by strengthening Yahoo. The competition would then spark innovation that is good for consumers, the Internet, and the economy.(0:28)
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