Microsoft withrawls bid for Yahoo, Google wins

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You're not serious - are you?!?

You speak of a monopolisation on a grand scale - and have the audacity to imply that MS is the poor victim here.

You sure have a blinkered and anal view of the world as we know it. In case you hadn't noticed, MS - the embodiment and trueist representation of a monopolising multi-national, "wrote the book".

To quote you:

"When google controls 65% of the searches, with Yahoo! at 20% and MS at 8%?"

mmmmm ... now, let me see, that sounds kinda familiar. By crikey, i know where i heard that *tune* before! When MS controls over 80% of the OS market, Apple about 7-8% and Linux flavours around 9-10% then, gee, i guess we ought to all be happy and sink some folk songs to celebrate how grand life is ... in your dreams, pal!

You live by the sword, you die by it!

The real issue here is not whether Google and Yahoo pair up, but rather is that the world has avoided (albeit possibly only for the medium term) MS increasing their pall over the information technology world - in a new field.

Let me ask you NoThomas: which is really the lesser of the two evils?

(1) MS + Yahoo: where the one *not only* controls the dOS market but goes on to control a huge share of the search engine capacity on the Internet, i.e., a veritable super dictator.

(2) Google and *possibly* Yahoo: A conglomeration of corporations that *at least* know the business model for search engine management.

The lesser of the two evils is clearly the latter, whereby at least no single enterprise has an all enveloping control over both OS and search engine markets.

Personally, i couldn't give a flying gazelle whether Google and Yahoo merge. The fact is, my life doesn't revolve around surfing the Net and using search engines - if it did then maybe, just maybe, i might have contemplated cutting my wrists. As it is, my career revolves around managing Servers and workstations in a typical, modern network.

This is just ... yawn ... something of passing interest.

I suggest you get real, get a grip and move on.

Sincerely.

(n.b. "I wish my lawn was Emo', then it could
cut itself.")

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