EightBlack.

Phew. That’s a relief. I bet Eric Schmidt and Larry and Sergey can breathe easy now.

After all, once they typed into Google Maps, just where Australia was, they probably called a special board meeting and said “Well fellas, that crazy old coot Graeme Samuel from downunder has given us the all clear to go ahead and spend US$3.1 billion on the DoubleClick deal. So we had better get on with it”. Or something like that.

Do you really think the deal would have been stopped by a tin pot regulator such as the ACCC? The very same regulator that in a world first, has decided in it’s wisdom, to take not Google Aus or Google Ireland to court, but Google Inc, USA. Because that’s just so much more logical.

I refuse even to link to the ACCC press release - but have a read of it at the ACCC website, in case you need something to brighten your day.

And just how were they planning on intervening anyway? Whatever course of action they might have been considering would have been about as useful as the 3 beer trucks and 44 blokes we sent to fight in Iraq. But thats for another day.

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