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rahvin112
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Re: Has Google's Drummond ever heard the word "hypocrisy" ?
Of the list of companies you list 2 actually had a product. Trasformic had a product to search databases, and Applied Semantics which had an web advertising product. The other two were working on new search algorithms. Most of the acquisitions Google has made have been more about the people working at the company than the product they had. Given the difficulty hiring in the highly specialized field Google is in they have used acquisitions to get key people they wanted in their organization, and as any company they were always on the lookout for new technology that improves search. For that to somehow make their being number 1 in search a product of acquisitions, as you claim, is frankly a straw man. Google became number one in search all on their own. They used strategic acquisitions to maintain the cutting edge of their search, mainly on algorithms to filter out all the junk advertising sites trying to bump their page rank. You belittle their achievement, not only in calling them ruthless but especially in putting them in the same league as Microsoft.
What's even worse is you fall for the MS propaganda and think that being number 1 in search translates into some huge monopoly. What Microsoft really cares about is that Google with their Doubleclick acquisition (yet to be approved) will become the largest (by by no measure controlling advertising provider. Unlike MS's desktop monopoly where people are locked into using MS products. The minute Google fails to perform, people will start using other sites. The same holds true with the advertising. Yet you want to say it's the same thing as the Microsoft acquisition where you have a convicted monopolist with 90% share of operating systems and an equivalent share of the office software market acquiring the largest portal site on the Internet. Not only will MS use their desktop monopoly to integrate Yahoo! fully into the OS but they will leverage the email and IM integration into the OS and Office suite to monopolize internet portals. (That is if they don't screw it up.)
To equate the two situations is frankly trying to say an apple is an orange. Google is a company that tries to be a good business, not only to people but the environment. Rather than the one ton business crushing machine that MS is. | |
asellus
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join:2004-09-24
Malaysia
| Buying companies for their human resources acquisition is not that different from buying companies for their product. It is just like Microsoft buying Groove just to get Ray Ozzie. Without the personnel Google gets from their acquisition I do not think they will be able to get where they are now. Saying Google becomes no.1 on their own is a strawman.
Last time I checked, Google buyout of DoubleClick is already approved in USA. Even that, those combo is not even a monopoly of online advertisement, that's why it was approved. So are with Yahoo+Microsoft. BTW, have you heard of Linux or Mac OSX? Those two are proof that no one is locked onto Microsoft software/products. And your suggestion that Microsoft will integrate Yahoo! products over their own such as Windows Live Messenger (still the biggest IM service on the planet), Hotmail (still have the most active accounts in the world), Windows Live Spaces (has more users than any other social-networking sites in the planet) in their OS is hogwash.
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