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Lobbyist Wars: May the DOJ Be With You
OK, the only thing missing now is for Bill Gates to put on his best James Earl Jones voice and utter the words, "Larry... Sergey... I am your father."
First, the FT's Richard Waters warned us that Google was fighting uphill against Microsoft's Imperial Stormtrooping army of lobbyists. Who would question that assertion, given that 10 U.S. Congressmen had just authored a hand-wringing little note encouraging the DOJ to give thorough scrutiny to the imminent Yahoogle alliance?
But then Waters and others broke the news that Google, ever eager to fight political firepower with political firepower, had trumped the 10 signatures, with 11 U.S. Representatives putting their names to a letter encouraging the DOJ to hold fire on the alliance.
We're still very early in the trilogy, but it seems the dark side of the force is quite strong in both Redmond and Mountain View.
