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Google Aims To Scuttle MS/Yahoo Deal
CEO offers potential partnership, financial help

Google is taking aim at the potential Microsoft & Yahoo merger over at the Google blog, suggesting the company will exert "the same sort of inappropriate and illegal influence over the Internet that it did with the PC." With the control of so many instant message and e-mail accounts, the company fears they'll use that leverage to apply their 90's strangehold all over again.

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Could a combination of the two take advantage of a PC software monopoly to unfairly limit the ability of consumers to freely access competitors' email, IM, and web-based services? Policymakers around the world need to ask these questions -- and consumers deserve satisfying answers.
Of course Microsoft was asking the same questions when Google recently acquired Doubleclick. Microsoft responded to Google's arguments by saying that a merger with Yahoo would create a "compelling number two competitor for Internet search and online advertising" to market leader Google. Microsoft's proposed merger with Yahoo would combine the No. 1 and No. 2 suppliers of Web-based e-mail, instant messaging (IM) and portals.

The NY Times notes that Google CEO Eric Schmidt over the weekend called Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang, offering the company help in fending off Microsoft. Reuters meanwhile makes it very clear the deal between Microsoft and Yahoo is far from being completed.

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Has Google's Drummond ever heard the word "hypocrisy" ?

What a load of BS thrown out by Google's mouthpiece in his blog entry ( »googleblog.blogspot.com/ ··· net.html ).

To listen to this whining from a Google officer is kind of sickening. This is the same Google that has swallowed up dozens of companies since their start. And to complain about Microsoft doing the same thing is the height of hypocrisy.