Yahoo, Google build coalition of foes

The potential deals to place Google's ads on Yahoo's search results beyond a previous test already garnered opposition from a motley crew of groups. Poor Yahoo. All it wants to do is keep its stock price from submarining back down to $19 a share, where it was in January, by bringing in more revenue via a deal with Google. Any such search advertising deal requires a modest scope, as the Feds already made antitrust rumblings, no doubt encouraged from the sidelines by Microsoft. Whatever breadth and depth Google and Yahoo have planned to place Google's AdSense for Search in more of Yahoo's search results, the Without government intervention, the groups feel Google gains far too much at the expense of others. Jeff Chester of the Center for Digital Democracy also write at Chester cited figures from M:Metrics via