Hearing the dominant search and advertising company, on the cusp of adding DoubleClick to its business, complain about Microsoft gaining something of a monopoly online made us chuckle heartily. Even more than Bill Belichick fleeing the field with 0:01 left in the Super Bowl last night (Yay Giants!)
David Drummond, Google's chief legal officer, evidently had to spend some of Super Sunday composing a response to the Freaky Friday caused by Microsoft. Google usually does not comment on what the other guys do, but this is a little different than usual.
Drummond brought up Microsoft's less than glowing history of misbehavior in his post on the official Google blog:
Could Microsoft now attempt to exert the same sort of inappropriate and illegal influence over the Internet that it did with the PC? While the Internet rewards competitive innovation, Microsoft has frequently sought to establish proprietary monopolies -- and then leverage its dominance into new, adjacent markets.
Could the acquisition of Yahoo! allow Microsoft -- despite its legacy of serious legal and regulatory offenses -- to extend unfair practices from browsers and operating systems to the Internet?
The question needed to be asked, certainly. But for Microsoft to do the things Drummond suggests in his scary scenario would mean hurting the value of Yahoo post-acquisition. Only the most paranoid Microsoft hater envisions a future where access to Yahoo requires IE 8.
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Good For them
Maybe Microsoft can pull yahoo out of hell and together they might be able to build something that can rival Google..
Good for Microsoft!
Good for Microsoft! Competition is good for the users. Only brainless Microsoft haters would be disappointed at this deal. It is not time to hate Microsoft! It is Google's time! Microsoft is Mother Theresa next to Google now! Google is way too big and in my opinion, doing too much evil abusing their power! Google's time is about to expire. They are scared and they should be! They know their health benefits are about to expire.
What a hypocrite that smichdt after doing this doubleclick deal! Google's days are counted. If you are a web marketer and a searcher, this is good news for you. Nothing but good can come out of this. Enough of Google! They like to abuse their customers.
Bye bye Google! If I've seen you, I sure as hell don't remember you!
Yahoo and Microsoft
The monopolists, usually, do not like open business and may want to change even the way of web 2.0 development in the next years. But who knows... I hope Microsoft will not make big changes in the way Yahoo does business now...
To life, familiy and business success,
Teodor
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