Apple and Google under scrutiny

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/05/technology/companies/05apple.html?_r=1

I found this article from the New York Times to be really interesting. I don't need to explain to anyone that has any knowledge of the internet or business in general that Google and Apple are two of the biggest companies in our country. Needless to say, Google has a near monopoly on internet searches and advertising, while Apple has a near monopoly on online music downloads and mp3 players. It's a scary thought to think what the two of them could accomplish if they were to join forces, publicly or secretly.
Being an internet search engine, well a monopoly internet search engine really, you are open to being scrutinized for possible antitrust issues. Especially when you give some companies priority of where they come up in the search results, which is where this case is stemming from.
Google has close ties with the Obama administration and part of this article points out how regulators don't expect that to have anything to do with this case. I certainly hope so. A Google-Apple-Obama team would be pretty hard to stop.