Greetings. It has been announced that Google and Yahoo have terminated their proposed ad partnership plan due to continuing objections from Microsoft, DOJ, and other parties.

As I noted in How to Destroy Yahoo a few days ago, the collapse of this proposal could ultimately be devastating to Yahoo, and a major blow against vibrant competition in the Internet ad marketplace.

The Google-haters who pushed so hard to block the plan may ultimately come to realize that they have just shot themselves directly in their own feet. One assumes that they're lovers of self-inflicted pain. But it's very unfortunate that the rest of us have to be unwillingly along on their masochistic ride.

--Lauren--