Government likely to antitrust Google

The Justice Department may sue Google over its upcom­ing adver­tis­ing part­ner­ship with Yahoo, the Wall Street Journal reports. The depart­ment has hired high-profile lawyer Sandford Litvack and has been depos­ing wit­nesses and gath­er­ing doc­u­ments about the deal for weeks.

Under the ad part­ner­ship, Yahoo would show the valu­able Google ads along with its own ads. The prices will be set by auc­tion and the com­pa­nies would share the prof­its, Bloomberg reports.

It is uncer­tain whether any antitrust suit would address any of Google’s other adver­tis­ing business.

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