Google offers to help Yahoo repel Microsoft

By Cory Bergman 

Google CEO Eric Schmidt called Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang “to offer his company’s help in any effort to thwart Microsoft Corp.’s unsolicited $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo,” reports the WSJ. Google has been outspoken that a Microsoft-Yahoo deal “raises troubling questions.” Meanwhile, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer spoke to a group of analysts today and said the acquisition would help competition, not hurt it. “Google’s clearly got a dominant position. They’ve got about 75 percent of paid search worldwide,” Ballmer said. “We think this enhances competition. Anything else would be less good from that perspective.” (First link WSJ sub. req.)

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