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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Microsoft says Yahoo! a Google satellite

General Counsel at Microsoft Brad Smith says Yahoo!’s CEO told Microsoft that an agreement with Google would join Yahoo! and Google into a single entity and that Microsoft would no longer be strong enough to remain a player in the market afterward. (0:50)
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Google critiques Microsoft’s claims

David Drummond, chief legal officer at Google, says the most energetic critic of an agreement between Google and Yahoo! is Microsoft, a major competitor. Drummond tells the subcommittee that Microsoft’s CEO said he was going to “kill Google” and that Microsoft’s share of the desktop market is capable of harming the next phase of the Internet. He encourages the subcommittee to disregard Microsoft’s claims. (1:02)
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Yahoo! says its going nowhere

Michael Callahan, general counsel for Yahoo!, says Yahoo! is neither exiting search based advertising nor ceding advertisement space to Google, adding that Yahoo! will continue to grow its share of the online search market through its agreement with Google. (0:29)
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