Google Calls Microsoft’s Bid 'Unnerving'

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Google co-founder Sergey Brin called Microsoft's recent takeover bid for Yahoo "unnerving." Brin claims that a buyout by Microsoft would threaten innovation on the internet.

"The Internet has evolved from open standards, having a diversity of companies," Brin told The Associated Press after the event. "And when you start to have companies that control the operating system, control the browsers, they really tie up the top Web sites, and can be used to manipulate stuff in various ways. I think that's unnerving."
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I'm confused, M$ already controls the biggest OS on the planet, they already have the largest share of the browser market, what would controlling Yahoo.com really change?

Almost seems like Mr. Brin is a little full of himself and his company.
 
I can see it right now....

Go to Yahoo...

Search... MAC OS X

Results: No Results Found

Did you mean Windows Vista? *insert link here*
 
awww is poor google sad that someone might be able to actually compete with them?
 
so let me get this straight...

Google is complaining about M$ acquiring companies and therefore decreasing competitiveness on the internet?

What about when google bought youtube?
Or how about when google bought double click?



Pot... meet Kettle.
 
Jester1550 said:
so let me get this straight...

Google is complaining about M$ acquiring companies and therefore decreasing competitiveness on the internet?

What about when google bought youtube?
Or how about when google bought double click?



Pot... meet Kettle.
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EXACTLY!
 
This is just the way it works in business. They're just rabble rousing the ignorant net surfing masses.

At the heart of it Yahoo has a good search solution, but very poor execution and poor brand unity. MSFT finally has a nice online suite with their "Live" stuff where spaces, mail, etc are all pretty nice and uniform with good usability and extensibility for users but their search is weak. The Live stuff gets better with every revision but their search is still very weak.

Yahoos superior search technology coupled with the MSFT uniform product branding and identity which took them years to get right is a threat to Google precisely because Google has search and then a hodge podge of unrelated stuff they give away for free. IE: they are like YHOO, but exeucute better and so enjoy their lead position.

YHOO+MSFT == boogy man for GOOG. Hence the FUD from GOOG.

I think its neat to see MSFT as the "underdog" here and to see GOOG getting all whiny about it. It tells me they are actually afraid of MSFT. It should force them to do even better. GMAIL and other eternal betas are sad. They'll need to bring their a-game to go head to head with an MSFT with real search and online market share. That would be awesome to watch.
 
I trust Google's position on this. They care about the Internet and they care about me.
 
I want M$ to buy the government so I can finally stop thinking for myself.

P.S. I love vista. Thanks Bill!
 
Google cracks me up these days acting like they are just some little upstart.
 
Google is quickly on their way to one of the most hated companies in the world. This is just another example of why. Google already owns most of the internet, whats unnerving is that there is no realistic competitor for these scum bags.
 
Google slamming Microsoft for trying to compete with them? Shock! Awe!

Seriously, Google should just shut up. They're becoming another Microsoft and they really need to be slapped a couple times with real competition. I like Google and Gmail, but their search market share is insane. Having some real competition will be good for both parties. Make them actually work for their users. You know, like they used to have to do.
 
A loser plus a loser does not equal a winner.

I don't think there's any problem with the merger. Microsoft still won't be able to match Google in search or advertising.

I never cared for Yahoo anyway. I've used their finance page to track stocks, but that's about it.
 
unnerving is right.

i HATE M$

cant they keep their grubby little paws out of everyone else's business? they obviously know their OS sucks, (bill gates said so himself, about vista, that was some funny stuff) so they need to invest in every other company in the world to stay afloat, it just makes me sick.

i wonder who bought the judge out that overturned the court decision for them to be split in half in the 90's because they were deemed a monopoly:rolleyes:

now the bastards are in ford cars with SYNC

really, they just need to go away forever. i really couldnt care if i never gamed out again, as long as they didnt exist.

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unnerving is right.

i HATE M$

Monopoly monopoly monopoly:rolleyes:

cant they keep their grubby little paws out of everyone else's business? they obviously know their OS sucks, (bill gates said so himself, about vista, that was some funny stuff) so they need to invest in every other company in the world to stay afloat, it just makes me sick.

i wonder who bought the judge out that overturned the court decision for them to be split in half in the 90's because they were deemed a monopoly:rolleyes:

now the bastards are in ford cars with SYNC

really, they just need to go away forever. i really couldnt care if i never gamed out again, as long as they didnt exist.

[/end rant]
 
Dunan said:
unnerving is right.

i HATE M$

cant they keep their grubby little paws out of everyone else's business? they obviously know their OS sucks, (bill gates said so himself, about vista, that was some funny stuff) so they need to invest in every other company in the world to stay afloat, it just makes me sick.

i wonder who bought the judge out that overturned the court decision for them to be split in half in the 90's because they were deemed a monopoly:rolleyes:

now the bastards are in ford cars with SYNC

really, they just need to go away forever. i really couldnt care if i never gamed out again, as long as they didnt exist.

[/end rant]
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Dilusional much? I would normally laugh and ignore this post, but I feel like ripping you apart.

Grubby little paws? You mean like EVERY ever large business in the world does? Yes, lets condemn one company for something every god damn company does. Sounds smart. To keep afloat? HA! Microsoft is a multi-BILLION dollar a year company. They make more money in a day than much of us here will EVER see in our entire life-times. They buy out companies because they can and, as I will talk about later in this post, to expand their market.

Gate NEVER said Vista sucks. Depending how you read his words he could have said he wished they would've had a little more time for the launch kinks (which are LONG gone) to get worked out in Vista or that he is just brushing the comment off basically saying to ask him again when the next OS is out. Can be taken many ways, but not saying it sucks. Twisting words to make yourself feel better about your ridiculous stance only makes you look foolish.

Old and tired argument much? I really have nothing to add to it that hasn't been said a billion times.

Yes, so what? Its not like its a bad product or even a bad idea. They're expanding their market, nothing every other big company is doing these days. Good companies are not satisfied sitting idle and just doing one thing over and over and over again. You tend to go out of business quickly that way. Go condemn Sony, Toshiba, any number of electronics companies or large businesses for doing the same thing. If you are not going to condemn every company for doing something one days you should not bring up the argument in the first place.

Maybe you should take some pills or something. That kind of delusional anti-faceless company bull shit can't be healthy. Now I will return to laughing at your stupid post and quick likely your equally stupid response to mine.
 
Anyone thing the EU wont allow microsoft to merge with Yahoo? I mean seems to me saying no is just the type of thing they'd do.
 
MrWizard6600 said:
Anyone thing the EU wont allow microsoft to merge with Yahoo? I mean seems to me saying no is just the type of thing they'd do.
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Either that or they will let it happen and then sue Microsoft again for some insane reason or another. I'm starting to think the EU is trying to use lawsuits against big companies to fund themselves. They call American's sue happy, but what about those guys?
 
google search sucks anyway.


anyone have a new search engine? when one gets like google, its time to abandon it.
 
meh.

who gives a yahoo...

as long as they don't sell pirate bay to microsoft i think its all going to be ok ;)
 
Jester1550 said:
so let me get this straight...

Google is complaining about M$ acquiring companies and therefore decreasing competitiveness on the internet?

What about when google bought youtube?
Or how about when google bought double click?



Pot... meet Kettle.
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QFT. Google has been nuts about buying up the competition. I think this guy is just sour because the early bird got the worm.
 
Microhoo, that's a good one....
Google should be nervous, with the #2 & #3 search companies combining...
I agree with the earlier post too, that Google needs to get stuff off of Beta...

And just to throw this in, from my experience, Vista = WindowsME2.....
 
Derangel said:
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you can say i look foolish all you want

the fact is, M$ is a shit company:)

shit companys take a product (win98), sell it for $300, have it tank with constant crashes and BSOD's, patch it for a year, RE-RELEASE it as an updated version with all the patches that were FREE in the first place and then sell the SAME PRODUCT for $300 AGAIN touting that its new and improved and a SPECIAL EDITION, better version of the prior.:rolleyes::rolleyes:

THAT'S how they got rich my friend, NOT because of their investments in other companys at the time because they werent big enough to do so then.

Shiesters, pure and simple, M$ blows as an unstable, insecure OS maker. the ONLY 2 decent OS's they have produced is win2000 and XP, the rest is shiite, even new vista that NO ONE wants:)

to the OP: yes i do hate LCD technology, because it is an inferior technology . read my posts, i state my reasons why all the time here :)
 
Dunan said:
you can say i look foolish all you want

the fact is, M$ is a shit company:)

shit companys take a product (win98), sell it for $300, have it tank with constant crashes and BSOD's, patch it for a year, RE-RELEASE it as an updated version with all the patches that were FREE in the first place and then sell the SAME PRODUCT for $300 AGAIN touting that its new and improved and a SPECIAL EDITION, better version of the prior.:rolleyes::rolleyes:

THAT'S how they got rich my friend, NOT because of their investments in other companys at the time because they werent big enough to do so then.

Shiesters, pure and simple, M$ blows as an unstable, insecure OS maker. the ONLY 2 decent OS's they have produced is win2000 and XP, the rest is shiite, even new vista that NO ONE wants:)

to the OP: yes i do hate LCD technology, because it is an inferior technology . read my posts, i state my reasons why all the time here :)
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No the fact is: Microsoft is a company.

You thinking they are Shiesters is your opinion, not a fact.

Microsoft does things right and does things wrong like any other company. Sure, i would agree that some of their operating systems and programs didn't/don't stand up par a lot of the time but I think they provide a lot of good things that out-weigh the bad. That's my opinion.

You thinking Vista is an operating system that NO ONE wants, is also an opinion. I am ONE and think vista is just fine.

As far as this article goes, I am also of the opinion that this is another case of pot calling the kettle black. The way that this is reported is ridiculous. Google is Microsoft 8 or 9 years ago and seems to me on their way to the same destination... wherever that is.
 
Google went from innocent to bully literally overnight. I know everyone loves to be anti-MS, but this is one the cases where Google is being a whiny little bitch.
 
Dunan said:
you can say i look foolish all you want

the fact is, M$ is a shit company:)

shit companys take a product (win98), sell it for $300, have it tank with constant crashes and BSOD's, patch it for a year, RE-RELEASE it as an updated version with all the patches that were FREE in the first place and then sell the SAME PRODUCT for $300 AGAIN touting that its new and improved and a SPECIAL EDITION, better version of the prior.:rolleyes::rolleyes:

THAT'S how they got rich my friend, NOT because of their investments in other companys at the time because they werent big enough to do so then.

Shiesters, pure and simple, M$ blows as an unstable, insecure OS maker. the ONLY 2 decent OS's they have produced is win2000 and XP, the rest is shiite, even new vista that NO ONE wants:)

to the OP: yes i do hate LCD technology, because it is an inferior technology . read my posts, i state my reasons why all the time here :)
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then why the hell do you own two LCDs if you hate them so much?

other than that, that post is filled with too much retardation to reply to. :rolleyes:
 
idk about microhoo... but i do want to see another software company start up called MacroHard! rofl...

and i dont like M$ either... in fact i hate'em because of several personal reasons such as no competition, but the truth is they are the only ones that allow me to do what i do... so i dont want them to burn, i want more competition with other equally compatible OS manufacturers to keep prices down for us gamers, and also keep them on their toes trying to create better and more stable software.... now if they keep buying small software firms trying to improve their products i really dont care as long as their stuff keeps getting better.

my solution would be for microsoft to split into two or more companies and compete with each other, i dont mind if bill gates owns all the software companies and makes even more money off of it, but i do like when supply and demand also has a competion variable in it... its better for everybody

and since you hate M$ so much i hope u are on Linux right now fighting to port every freakin piece of software to make it halfway work....
 
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