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| Attendees try an interactive display at the Microsoft booth at the 2010 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, in January 2010. Microsoft on Tuesday denounced Yahoo! Japan's Internet search alliance with Google, saying it would give Google near-total control over the third-largest market for search queries in the world. (AFP/File/Robyn Beck) |
Microsoft on Tuesday denounced Yahoo! Japan's Internet search alliance with Google, saying it would give Google near-total control over the third-largest market for search queries in the world.
"Google's plan would cement its position as essentially the sole provider of search results in Japan for years to come," Microsoft vice president and deputy general counsel Dave Heiner said in a blog post.
"The proposed deal will eliminate search competition in Japan -- in paid advertising and natural search results," Heiner said.
The agreement calls for Yahoo! Japan to switch to Google's search engine this year from the Yahoo! Inc. technology currently used and deploy Google's online advertising and distribution system.
