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Obama Appoints Google to Microsoft Post

in News on February 18, 2009 at 3:16 am PT

If Google thought CEO Eric Schmidt’s role as an informal adviser to Barack Obama or the inaugural gala it hosted for the new president in January might curry favor with his administration, it was wrong. Certainly, Obama’s choice of Christine A. Varney as head of the Justice Department’s antitrust division suggests the administration may already be concerned with Google’s domineering presence in the market for Internet search advertising.