California asked to look into Yahoo-Google deal
Jackson West · 07/30/08 03:40PMCalifornia assemblyman Joel Anderson, R.-San Diego, has penned a letter to the state's attorney general, Jerry Brown, asking the former Governor Moonbeam to launch an investigation into the search advertising deal between Yahoo and Google. Anderson took credit for convincing the monolithic Mountain View search giant to add a link to the company's privacy policy on its homepage. Now he's pointing out that by controlling 90 percent or more of the search advertising market, Google is in a position to unilaterally set the terms of consumer privacy as it relates to search ads. “We are on the brink of having a national privacy policy — Google’s privacy policy,” Anderson declared in a press release. Yahoo and Google responded to say that we can all trust the two companies to take privacy seriously, honest. Anderson's full letter: