Google : ‘Microsoft’s bid is an illegal influence over the Internet’
February 3, 2008
Google might be somewhat concerned with the Yahoo / Microsoft Merger…. in our opinion it’s a knee jerk reaction, Yahoo and Microsoft combined do not have the market share that Google does. We understand that it’s a threat, but both companies are somewhat clueless… as Microsoft has never had a toehold online, and Yahoo has been total superseded by Google for almost a decade.
We debated what the headline should of been, if it should of been ‘Yahoo to adopt Windows.. or Microsoft to Adopt Linux” at the end, we settled on Google’s thought being the headline.
Regardless, Google does feel that ‘Microsoft’s bid is an illegal influence over the Internet’, we disagree…. we like to see some competition… we just feel that both companies combined are not going to beat Google for the short or mid-term.
Not only that… What is Microsoft Going to do with all those Linux Servers that Yahoo! runs? the point is the cultures will clash..
Feb. 3 (Bloomberg) — Google Inc., owner of the world’s most popular Internet search engine, said the proposed takeover of rival Yahoo! Inc. by Microsoft Corp. “raises troubling questions” for Web users.
Microsoft, the world’s largest software maker, made a $44.6 billion unsolicited bid for Yahoo Feb. 1, moving to combine the second- and third-biggest Web search providers. The companies have some of the most-popular e-mail and instant messaging programs and both sell graphical, or display, ads over the Web.
Buying Yahoo, also the owner of the most visited group of Web sites in the U.S., would help Microsoft quadruple its revenue from online advertising. In a statement today, Google questioned whether the transaction would allow Microsoft to “attempt to exert the same sort of inappropriate and illegal influence over the Internet” that it did with personal computers.
Edit : We found out that we are not the only ones calling it the Sears / K-Mart Merger
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They will probably just run MS Linux or SUSE
My perspective? There’s absolutely nothing to fear, undersearch is here.
Microsoft + Yahoo = Sear’s + K-Mart
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