Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) does not much like the fact that Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) is making a bid for internet portal firm Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO). So the world's largest search company has decided to start a PR campaign to get the government to kill the deal.
In a blog post, Google Senior Vice President David Drummond asks whether Microsoft could "now attempt to exert the same sort of inappropriate and illegal influence over the Internet that it did with the PC," according to The Wall Street Journal (subscription required). Microsoft immediately took the other side of the argument by saying that Google dominates the global search market. A purchase of Yahoo! would not knock Google out of the No.1 spot.
The bickering over the matter probably makes little difference. Google is so powerful now in internet search that Microsoft may not make much progress there even by owning Yahoo!. There will be all sorts of integration problems if its bid goes through. Google probably will keep gaining search share in the meantime. The government knows all of that. There is little reason for it to oppose the deal.
Douglas A. McIntyre is an editor at 247wallst.com.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
2-03-2008 @ 8:51PM
John said...
Google is the one who should be sued for Anti-Trust. Apple and Google stock is with $500+ and Microsoft is worth like $45!
Google's domination of the Market is killing competition and the viability of other search engines to grow.
2-03-2008 @ 9:43PM
squidoo.com/scogostology said...
The most shocking internet news that I have ever heard or read about is the news of Microsoft seeking to buy Yahoo. How has the mighty fallen! Yahoo used to be the most loved largest and most profitable online company. How could they fallen so low that Microsoft now must acquire them? If Yahoo could fall, then no internet company is safe. I have never been happy about the anti-trust laws that hinder companies from acquiring other companies. I believe any company who wants to acquire another company should not be hindered. If Microsoft has the money and Yahoo is willing, then the anti-trust laws should not become an impediment.
But before you get the wrong idea, let me clear the air. I am not a lover of Microsoft because all of its inferior and frustrating operating systems and softwares and smug attitude to customers, that I have personally experienced. I am also not a fan of Google, (their arch enemy0 because they preach "Don't be evil" and yet they are evil because they destroyed internet marketing so they can continue making billions of dollars from all internet marketers who were forced to use their Adwords advertising service. Google deliberately and maliciously destroyed my business. But it is okay because I have re-invented myself and do not depend on them anymore, so they cannot harm me again because they control online searching. Someday in the future, 10 yrs from now, Google will meet the same fate like Yahoo and even the mighty Microsoft will be worthless too and I may be the guy who would go and buy them up for pennies on the dollar. An eye for an eye. The evil that companies do live after them and someday will comeback to bite them on their behind and Humpty Dumpty would fall and cannot be put together again. myspace.com/ikbe
2-05-2008 @ 11:26PM
squidoo.com/scogostology said...
I don't mind Google dominating the search engine industry. What I mind is that in order for them to make billions of dollars from their advertising service "Adwords", they had to destroy millions of small business online marketers and as well as internet marketing. Today their stock may be worth a gazillion dollars. They have done well. I will not recommend anti-trust lawsuit against them. Let the Universe judge them. Within 10 yrs, their stock would be worthless and they would be wiped out. It happened to Excite. A high flying $40 billion dollar search engine company during the 1990s!!! Where are they today? So I say to Google, you preach "Don't be evil" and yet you are more sinister than the Devil himself and have maliciously destroyed internet marketing, e-commerce and ruined the lives of millions of internet marketers including me. Your judgment will be coming soon, because what you sow will be what you reap.
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