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Google Rebuffs Microsoft Takeover Bid

Posted by timothy on from the money-to-be-made-somewhere dept.

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."

3 of 376 comments (clear)

  1. Google refuses to be assimilated by the Borg by Nybble's+Byte · · Score: 0, Redundant

    In other words, Buzz Off, Bill! Go find your own sandbox.

  2. This is a very good thing by Limburgher · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Imagine Google searches if it were on a Windows cluster:

    Search: w3c ieee

    Search found no results!

    --

    You are not the customer.

  3. Re:It's questionable by Feztaa · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Slightly out of context:

    Microsoft has thousands of employees and 50 bil in the bank, which pretty much allows them to develop any [...] technology they want and hire the best people in the industry.

    Unfortunately, that hasn't stopped them from developing the worst OS, the worst Office suite, the worst email client, the worst web server, etc etc etc.