mattatwork's Journal: Irony of Ironies

Google's recent hints at acquiring Double Click has a few feathers ruffled in the tech industry! According to Ars Technica, Microsoft has a new buddy in the cries for Anti-trust against Google. AT&T (the company that merged with Bell South, Ameritech, Pacific Telesis, Bell South and SBC), think it's unfair *sniffle* that Google would have *sniffle* 85% of the online advertising market! I'm really only surprised by two things in the article...first, that Google hasn't already, by itself, taken 85%+ of the advertising market and second why a company like Microsoft (which has something like 90%+ of the OS market) and AT&T (which has the majority of the long distance and cell market) can legitimately complain about. It's all about the money, I guess....