The final “hurdle” (or rather, pebble) in Google’s acquisition of DoubleClick is now overcome. Those wily European Union regulators approved the $3.1 billion acquisition on Tuesday saying the deal will not hurt competition for online ads. And that may be true. AOL, Yahoo, and Microsoft may still have a fighting chance in the online ad game.
However, a few years ago DoubleClick bought a little SEO/SEM shop called Performics for the bargain-basement price of $58 million. So now Google owns Performics. Google has the world’s leading search engine. Performics does search engine optimization. Conflict of interest? Naaaa.
So it seems that people are finally catching up to me and starting to see the evil that lies behind those fun & bubbly blue, yellow, red and green letters. Well, at least in the comments on the recent TechCrunch article, that is.
Next step… VeriSign.
And let’s not even get started on the fact that Google has entered into businesses regarding DNA and Health Care.
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