Jim Murray, director of BEUC, wrote in a warning to the EU commission “may have a negative impact on the selection of online content available to consumers and on privacy,” and added, “Through its acquisition of DoubleClick, Google could monopolise the online advertising business, thereby restricting competition and raising privacy concerns over control of data.”

As the opponents of this acquisition are growing bigger and stronger, there are more and more voices thinking that the deal will likely be scrutinized.

[via FT]

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Myspace is currently working exclusively with Google for powering its search feature as well as ad platform and a Yahoo takeover may mean a big blow for Google, considering Myspace is the one of the most visited sites on the net.

I must mention that these talks may fail after all given the resignation of Yahoo’s CEO, Terry Semel, only two days ago and the takeover by Yahoo’s co-founder, Jerry Yang.

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