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Google - the world's first firewalled monopoly

<h4>Pricing power goes virtual</h4> <p><strong>Antitrust 2.0</strong> Why did Google leave outgoing Yahoo! chief executive Jerry Yang heartbroken at the search engine altar? If you believe the words chief ad broker and CEO Eric Schmidt <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/07/technology/companies/07google.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin">funneled through</a> <em>The New York Times</em>, Google chaffed at the prospect of winning a Department of Justice (DoJ) antitrust suit.?</p><a href="http://ad.uk.doubleclick.net/jump/reg.rss.4159/main;sz=336x280;ord=12345678922?" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.uk.doubleclick.net/ad/reg.rss.4159/main;sz=336x280;ord=12345678922?" border="0" alt=""></a>