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"Google Senior VP and Chief Legal Officer David Drummond took some time this fine Super Bowl Sunday morning to blog in passive-aggressive opposition to the Microshoo! maneuver, revealed to the public Friday. (He rhetorically claimed that Microsoft could exert inappropriate and and illegal influence over the Internet, rather than would exert inappropriate....)\nAnd hours later, Microsoft general counsel Brad Smith (I presume him to be an individual with a ranking equivalent to the CLO at GOOG) issued an official rebuttal, in which he essentially threw down Google\u2019s own ad revenue statistics in an effort to shame the company responsible for the Adsense-Adwords juggernaut for purporting potentially unfair competition in Microsoft-Yahoo! in the future.\nSmith catalogued Google\u2019s market share percentages both in search and online advertising. He stated that Google \u201Chas amassed 75 percent of paid search revenues worldwide and its share continues to grow\u201D and that it currently \u201Chas more than 65 percent search query share in the US and more than 85 percent in Europe.\u201D\nHe estimated that a purchase of Yahoo! would offer Microsoft only an immediate \u201C30 percent combined (share) in the US and approximately 10 percent combined in Europe.\u201D\nAnd of course Smith went on to say the expected blah-blah-blah, claiming, \u201CMicrosoft is committed to openness, innovation, and the protection of privacy on the Internet. We believe that the combination of Microsoft and Yahoo! will advance these goals.\u201D\nSurely Microsoft wishes to play a little more dirty than that, but it seems unlikely that the company\u2019s cutthroat nature in building its businesses will hinder its push for a Yahoo! buyout."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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