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Submitted to Digg by karenodalo 11/6/2008

The Department of Justice remained true to their assertion that a Yahoo/Google deal would prompt anti-trust lawsuits to block the deal.  They were so passionate about it that they made a weekly call to the parties every Wednesday telling them that it wasn’t worth going forward.

It didn’t go forward.  Now Yahoo is still in big trouble and Google must find someone else to gobble up.

In the whole scheme of things, this isn’t a shocker.  What is really interesting, however, is how the government let it go on with their stance staying the same and yet not clearly stating NO.  Probably wasted a ton of a lot of people’s time.

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Early Wednesday morning, the Department of Justice notified Yahoo and Google that if they proceeded with their controversial search agreement, it would file a lawsuit to block the deal. In some

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