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Google Rebuffs Microsoft Takeover Bid
Chris Gondek writes "The Sydney Morning Herald has posted that Internet search leader Google has rejected a takeover bid from Microsoft in favour of selling its shares directly to the public. According to The New York Times (Login Required), Google wishes to sell only about $US2 billion worth of shares to the public."
It's turns out that Google IS being bought by Nestle!
Here's the link to the story. I guess Nestle just offered too sweet of a deal to pass up.
Only $2 billion dollars....if only i could talk about money like that
"Google wishes to sell only about $US2 billion worth of shares to the public."
Does anyone have 2 Billion I can borrow? I promise I'll pay you back, when I hit it big.
Damn, if i'd had 2 billion dollar I wouldn't need Google. I'd had some naked petrified girls doing all the searching for me...
I prefer the chocolate-covered gold coins myself.
Search: syslinux.
MSGoogle: Why would you want to see that? Here, have an pre-order form for WindowsFX/Longhorn instead!
Search: lindows.
MSGoogle: TRADEMARK INFRINGMENT! YOU ARE BEING REPORTED TO ASHCROFT! ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US!
#define DRM chmod 000
I didn't even know they buffed them.
I just thought what a cluster the size of google's would be like running windows... imagine the spread of viruses, worms and spyware... every single person on the planet searching via an engine which is helping to spread the love....
the end of the world would truly be nigh.
The reason girls and Windows users don't understand UNIX is because all the documentation is in Man files.
Resistance is futile... The history repeats itself, anything that resists M$ signs off its death sentense. Sun's Java, Netscape's Navigator, IBM's OS/2... Now it's Google's turn. Doesn't anybody learn anything from the history???
I think Google can afford to lose all 2500 of you.
It must have been all the geeks of the world simultaneously exhaling sighs of relief.
Ok, so I guess now that Google has declined the buyout, Microsoft will declare war on them. They'll probably buy one of the lesser search engines, church it up a bit, slap some generic name on it like "Pinpoint" or "Searchlight" or some shit like that, market the hell out of it, and make it the default for every possible search function that exists in Windows.
You are so right! With those together Dacheau would re-open, Saddam's rape gangs would be back in operation and Vlad Tepes would return to impale thousands of more prisoners. I can only imagine the forces of Microsoft arrayed against twelve thousand from each of the 12 Tribes of Israel at Meddigio.
Thank God Google managed to change world history!
You want to know who isn't running Firefox 2.x? They spell it "definately" and "rediculous".
If I buy stock, do you think they'd take my suggestion to offer a torrent search (similar to Google Images, maybe) more seriously?
Google's profits actually come from the manufacturing and sales of weapons grade plutonium to Middle Eastern countries.
Then Google is in violation of several key patents I acquired during the great IP fire sale / dotbomb crash.
This is so blatantly untrue that the only conclusion I can come to is that you're either a microsoft troll or a hideously uninformed person.
*cue the pro-apple troll-feeding rebuttals to the parent post*
"ok, let's see here, sir. Please enter your search request on three copies of form 1144-EZ and you'll get your results back in 4 to 6 weeks. Neeeext!"