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It appears that everyone is up having their eyes focused at Google-Yahoo deal. The current addition to the list is California Attorney General Jerry Brown, reviewing everything that is related to the advertising partnership between the two search engines of the web. The story has been put up by the San Francisco Chronicle.

Although Brown hasn’t commented about the matter nor has he taken any action but the current development within the Department of Justice in relation to making the information available to Brown’s office as well speaks in affirmation of the news.

The steps have been taken up since July late, when Anderson had asked Brown for an investigation into the matter, stating the obvious fear of the duo controlling 90% of the market share:

Nobody else on the Web has a database like that. Who can compete?

The deal is set to bring Yahoo around $800 million a year, something that it desperately needs given the crashing stock rates. Yahoo President Sue Decker argued that the deal with Google is set to ad value to stock holders and at the same time maintain competition in the Web ad business. However the Department of Justice thinks otherwise, calling the deal to be a monopoly to control ad prices and eat away competition.

The deal has already seen three months of delay and Google CEO Eric Schmidt has commented about the deal to be in full throttle by October, irrespective to DOJ’s stand. Google’s Senior Manager for Public affairs and global communications, Adam Kovacevich added:

We are confident that the arrangement is beneficial to competition.