Good thing the government is tackling the really important issues. They could be wasting their time looking into why the oil companies bending us over, or the food shortages... But luckily they're doing after Google and Yahoo. I feel much better knowing my tax dollars are going to a good cause. -_-

you like google and yahoo but doesn't mean number 1 and number 2 can just join force and force everyone else in the market out.
it's not just anti-micorsoft, but also anyone else trying to get into online ad business like news corp etc.
this is just to investegate if they had break any anti-trust law.... like that of MS or Intel or apple.
Governmet has tons of departments doing different stuff. the congress was already grilling the oil companies, no need for DOJ to do the same.
Oil prices is high, go ask the oil future traders why so high? because 1/3 of the price for a barrow of oil is jacked up by private funds and 401K funds and banks. if just by supply and demand, your price of oil should be around 50-60$. Plus 30 yrs of not building refinaries...because you voted you don't want it in your back yard/state... so blame yourself.
Food Shortage? ask why all american wanted SUV
and trucks and more horse power...end up using more oil. And the tree-huggers and farmers for pushing BIO-FUEL...which use up land for food and use food like soil bean and corn and turn into ethernol you used in your gas tank.
The whole world would die of hunger before we get enough global warming to flood the world.
You should thank Al Gore for that.

Google is helping Yahoo defend it's self against a hostile takeover. If Microsoft is successful in it's takeover, The Market will go from 3 players to two or one.

As I have stated many times before (Sorry for spamming the forums :) ) Yahoo loose all of it's value if taken over by Microsoft. How will this help the consumer?

Microsoft has been a failure in the search market from day one. Giving them a new domain name will not help.

Amen brotha. Bring up your APES (ap environmental science) knowledge and show them how little they know rofl.

Ps. Don't forget about our insane global population growth, which creates more demand for well, everything, especially food.

I could see a fine coming for Google/Yahoo for this stunt. It will be an expensive lesson.

Yahoo shall be ordered to pay 41 billion in fines

When you have money the likes of which Google does, it goes a long way toward obsolescing the word 'expensive'.

Remember, we're talking about a company with a value higher than the gross national product of some whole countries.

The oil companies have not pushed gas to $4. Yes they profit from it being that high because they add their percentage to make money but it's a fraction of that $4 cost. That percentage hasn't changed. What's changed? The price of OIL.

OIL is an openly traded commodity just like a stock. If you want oil and gas to go down first call you broker or 401k brokerage and tell them to stop buy oil futures and buy the dollar, then stop driving 5 ton SUVs and trucks, finally stop buying products and services from China and India so they go back to 3rd world countries that won't compete for their share of oil from the middle east and Russia. These fokes are the real reasons gas is $4 a gallon and these are the reasons no Dem, Repub, or war is going to cause gas prices to go down. Stock trades not the OIL companies are selling the dollar and buying OIL causing u a double whammy at the pump.

It's only anti trust because it would give Google control of the Net. Something we as a people shouldn't want. competition is always good whether you like the competition or not.

Google is typically a good company but now that it's a public company that could change at the blink of an eye and suddenly your pay 10x for for products because google is charging 10x more for advertising.