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Google Considering Merger With Microsoft
buford_tannen writes "According to this New York Times Article (registration, etc.), Google may be considering a merger with Microsoft in the near future. As many people know, Google's search services are powered by Linux. "
Exhibit 23000 why Microsoft is such a smart company and why they are at the top of the tech world.
Right now, despite the Scientology dust up, I, for the most part, trust Google's results. And I admire the way there ad system works.
I doubt I could trust the results if Microsoft ran the show.
Nice sensationalist headline there. MS said they were interested, Google politely said no. I see no "consideration" there.
Of course, the whole point of the subject was to draw comments like this, so nice troll submitter, and nice troll to the admin who approved it.
Also seen in the headlines:
US Government considers merger with MS, Apple considers merger with MS, and GWB considers quitting presidency and working at Mickey D's.
Fun, isn't it?
...goes public instead can't Microsoft simply begin buying shares of Google to gain "ownership" of the company? Or, worse yet, Microsoft can simply make an offer that's really a damned good offer and the shareholders of Google - who will not be as staunch on the ethical grounds of "Don't sell obnoxious ads" and "Don't do something just to do it" and "Money is nice, but not everything." - will approve the merger with Microsoft?
At least when you're a private firm these things are controlled by the vision of a few people who agree on things and a not a fractured group who are, for the most part, out to make a buck.
My reality check bounced.
Isn't microsoft's motto "if you can't beat 'em, buy 'em"?
I doubt google's seriously going to sell their souls to microsoft, but it wouldn't suprise me too much if they were thinking about it. Who could resist that much money, honestly.
Or, will Google's Board of Directors even have the option of resisting a Microsoft bid once they're representing public shareholders?
The article says M$ approached google for purchase and were told to get lost. And slashdot says Google considering to merg with M$. Agreed you editors are busy people but please do atleast a little research before posting anything. Or you just dont care maybe?
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That's a nice idea. One day after the takeover of Google, all the engineers and other people responsible for the search engine quit their jobs and start a new company named Gooble or something.
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It is ALREADY integrated in MSIE : just type some search query directly in MSIE's URL bar and then enter : you'll eventually be taken to an MSN Search result page.
Trolling using another account since 2005.
Laugh all you want, but once they go public a hostile takeover is a real possibility.
All the need to do is buy 51% of the shares. And yes, they do have that kind of money.
a neighbor in a good neighborhood selling the house and property to a drug dealer. The neighborhood is turning to shit.
What would happen if SCO claimed (perhaps they have) that they owned libc? A new free one would emerge quickly.
Same story here. If M$ bought google, because of M$'s crediblity, users would "nominate" a different "king of searches". New king would get lots of traffic, hence funding. M$'s "investment" while still valuable, would no longer be as valuable as it would be with without M$.
My guess is if anything, M$ may become minority investor, with access at the API level and maybe some mirroring rights.
"Netscape once threatened Microsoft with a software browser that promised to be an alternative to its overwhelmingly dominant computer operating system."
Need I say more?
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Of course, the fact is. Slashdot or the submitter didn't make this story up. I'm sure you read the summary where it mentioned that this is a New York Times story. Although the NYT is not neccessarily a favorite of mine, it is what most would consider a "News Source," which technically makes this "News," which cannot make this trolling.
I actually came here last night wondering where this story was... I was thinking "a story on our favorite search engine and our arch enemy not being covered on SlashDot? What's wrong here?"
So... if they hadn't done the story, they'd be complained about, and apparently, for doing the story, they're complained about.
Since there's no way that they can win... and since slashdotters always seem to mod up complainers, I say that they er on the side of calling a story that is not an editorial in the New York Times a news-worthy story... wouldn't you agree?
I don't want slashdot to censor my news for me...
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Sorry, no results found! Did you mean "CAPITALISM"?
Funny, perhaps. However, the reality is that Microsoft broke the rules of the free market in the context of even a libertarian government, and they will face the consequences. They painted themselves into a corner, where companies like Red Hat, Sun, IBM, Lindows, etc. are standing outside the door smiling widely. Of course, this will play out over the next decade, but it is rather inevitable even without the Justice Department intervening.
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Additionally, internet search is already imbedded into WindowsXP. MS can redevelop the user interface for this integration, but the integration is already there, and few are using it.
"Don't be evil."
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
And when you ask them, what did you want out of all this, the only answer you get back is more.
We all secretly wish to rule the world. To have it all. We despise Bill for what he has that we do not every bit as much as for what he has done.
We really have to stop that behavior, and in fact learn to want less. You heard me, less. This world is huge. It only becomes small in the eyes of conquerors and madmen. It we spent more time enjoying what is here, what is now, what is in our power to do at this very moment we would solve most of the world's problems.
Of course, you know that already. Just as you rightfully forsee the downfall of the tyrant. How? Because history is littered with the broken carcasses of empires. Each one's destruction was seeded with the assumption that is was indestructable.
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Wishful thinking. With the acquisition of the company come all the patents and technologies associated with the Google brand. They'd have to reimplement everything, from scratch, without infringing upon any of Microsoft's newly-acquired patents.
What are the rules of a free market?
Perhaps you would like to read the article instead of posting first. Google has no intention of doing business with Microsoft. They don't even want to use the same bank. I know it seemed that way because of Slashdot posting this with a rather irresponsible headline but it's just not true. Read the article!
"Terminate?"
"Terminate... with extreme prejudice"
Linux running Microsoft-IIS/6.0?
Think a little bit. Just think.
What to do? Switch to Teoma.
I use Teoma interchangably with Google. Teoma results are as relevant as Google's yet slightly different, however they almost always have the best most relevant results in common.
The problems I see with Teoma are
1) they seem to crawl sites pretty infrequently (I see two old pages of mine listed...one 404's, another has had all its content moved to my new site (and redirects you there after a couple seconds). Google appears to visit my site at least once a month, sometimes more.
2) you have to pay to play if you're a webmaster. If your site's already in, then great (unless the page is now gone, like mine are). If you want to get your new site included, you gotta pony up the dough. Google crawls my site for free...
Nothing to see here, move along.
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