UPDATE: Google May Jump Ship On Yahoo Ad Deal. Good For Them.

It looks like Google finally did bailout of their proposed Ad Deal with Yahoo in an effort to avoid a long legal battle with the DOJ, which was ready file suit to block the deal. I had advocated this in a recent post. This was the right thing to do on Google’s part, and they were right to delay the deal until the DOJ had time to review it. One would think this would cause Yahoo stock to tank, but it appears that their is also renewed hope of a Microsoft deal causing the stock to rise. While I was at one time opposed to a deal with Microsoft, my opinion is now changed, I think they should do it.