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Taking questions after a speech before the New America Foundation, Google cofounder Larry Page told the crowd the reason Microsoft and Yahoo shouldn't merge is that it would give Microsoft too much control over email and instant messaging. "90 percent of the communications all in one company, I think that's a really big risk." We totally agree! So when will Google open its search results pages to third-party advertisements?
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Larry Page: Microsoft's "history of doing bad stuff" makes Yahoo merger risky
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9:00 AM on Thu May 22 2008
By Nicholas Carlson
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"History of bad stuff"?
Hate to be defending Microsoft, but when was the last time you saw Microsoft handing over dissidents to their oppressive regimes?
Hey Larry, shutthefuckup.
Eh? Sounds a lot like "The search engine giant, calling the kettle profitable" to me!
What the hell do they mean? They have a clear majority of the online search and advertising business, is't that bad?
Dear google,
clean up your own business practises before you start preaching!
Oh and also, ya do the bidding of dictatorships for advertising income much lately?
And I don't get why everyone is so obsessed over why MS and Yahoo can't steal market share from Google search. Both companies have lots of other services and are number 1 in many different categories (IM, Mail, News, Sports, Entertainment)
Just because a company provides search, it has automatically failed if it's number 2? You can't compete with Google when "googling" has become a verb. If Facebooks adds a web search, the value of the company should drop because the users still go to Google?
Luckily for Google, most of the bad stuff they will do is still in the future!
Google is no longer the small company it used to be, so the whole "MS is big and BAD" excuse is almost pathetic nowadays.
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