DoJ! to! probe! Google! Yahoo! deal!

shurely?

Are you forgetting your past, El Reg?

The ones getting a DoJ probe should be Microsoft, not Yahoo/Google. In reality, the only place where Google might be a "monopoly" is in the search market; and that isn't a result of monopolistic activities, but actual efficiency by the Google search engine. Really, we would still be using Altavista if Compaq hadn't b0rked the interface after eating DEC.

If I were the DoJ, I'd be more concerned on the MSFT takeover; eating Yahoo! would give them a chance to force Silverlight unto all of us, which would nicely lock "the web" to IE/Windows once again. No thanks.