John M. Simpson of Consumer Watchdog spoke up today against the Federal Trade Commission’s decision to all Google’s purchase of Admob, a mobile advertising company.  The deal is reportedly worth $750 million.  Simpson said the purchase is anticompetitive and simply bad for consumers.

«The FTC is  allowing the two dominant companies in mobile advertising to combine in a monopolistic juggernaut against the third-place company, owned by Apple,».  Simpson added: «How this possibly can be construed as promoting competition is incomprehensible. What it demonstrates is Google’s clout in Washington. This week CEO Eric Schmidt said he would vigorously fight any opposition to the $750 million deal and that obviously has translated into pulling his political strings in Washington.»

Google was already in the news as a former lobbyist for the monster internet company, Andrew McLauglin who is now Deputy Chief Technology Officer for the White House was reprimanded for his contact with Google executives.  The issue was related to privacy and not the AdMob merger.

«Clearly Google is willing to pull in political chits from the White House to influence FTC deliberations. Did the White House attempt to influence the AdMob decision? The public deserves to know,» Simpson said. «Hopefully the FTC will take a much more critical look at the WiSpy scandal.»

Consumer Watchdog is calling for a probe of Google as their share of 70 percent of the online search market is a monopoly.

John Simpson met earlier this month with the Justice Department to voice his concern about Google’s position in the search market.  He met with a five person team led by James Tierney, Chief of the Networks and Technology Section of the department in the Antitrust Division.  Simpson agreed to a questions in description of the Justice Department as being “in a listening mode” concerning the issues with Google.

Consumer Watchdog has launched  a new website, http://InsideGoogle.com as part of the organization’s Google Privacy and Accountability Project. «We want to open up the black box,» said Simpson.