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Opinions of an inexperienced techy!
Monday 4 February 2008, 11:02 PM
Google to Yahoo: We're in your corner!
For years Yahoo and Google have competed fearsly in every corner; search engine wars, email, social networks, advertisers etc.. You'd think that Yahoo's demise would be welcomed with open arms at Google, but not if it's in the form of a Microsoft takeover.
It turns out Google is not too fond of the idea, so much so that they're willing to help Yahoo fight off Microsoft.
According to The Wall Street Journal; " Chief Executive Eric Schmidt called Yahoo Inc. CEO Jerry Yang to offer his company's help in any effort to thwart Microsoft Corp.'s unsolicited $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo..."
Google have also expressed their concerns publically, in a blog post titled; Yahoo and the future of the internet, Google Senior VP David Drummond asks some interesting questions:
"Could Microsoft now attempt to exert the same sort of inappropriate and illegal influence over the Internet that it did with the PC?"
"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?"
This could be interesting!
