Google using Quattrone as merger adviser: source: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance

Former star technology investment banker Frank Quattrone is advising Google Inc (NasdaqGS:GOOG - News) as the Web search leader mulls its strategy amid Microsoft Corp's (NasdaqGS:MSFT - News) move to buy Yahoo Inc (NasdaqGS:YHOO - News), a source familiar with the arrangement said on Thursday.