Is AOL The Key to Microsoft 'Killing' Google?

VK writes "When Steve Ballmer yelled at a departing Microsoft employee that he would "kill Google" we had no idea just how direct a method he had in mind. Buying all or part of AOL may be the first part of the master plan, as Google relies heavily on the advertising pages that come from AOL, since it now syndicates its search to Google." Update: 09/23 19:20 GMT by J : As our readers pointed out, the original and Reg reprint both typoed "Yahoo" for AOL. Fixed.

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Re:That'll Never Work

[Hosiah]

I doubt we'll see our government do anything about it.

Don't worry, Europe will beat them up! This should be the new US National Anthem (particularly after Hurricane Katrina): "Thank God for Other Country's Governments".

Re:That'll Never Work

[LaCosaNostradamus]

Gee, I dunno, pud, but some of us have this old-fashioned idea that you should make better products and have better support for them, and then customers will frequent YOUR business and not the other guy's. But no, fucking Republican freaks like yourself want to spend company resources on "driving the competition out of business".

Here's a clue for ya, pud: Customers eventually notice that your products suck and the competitor's are better, and they also notice that instead of improving things, you're just attacking said competitor. This environment of contempt leads to higher costs and vicious behavior all around. So eventually another competitor comes along and -- while you're too busy eating some other guy for breakfast -- underprices and overproduces in your market, and your customers go bye-bye in great heaving sighs of gusty relief.

Bother to run your business under the philosophy of respecting the customer, and you'll find that you just don't have time to "destroy the competition". Real businessmen are busy working on their business, and any time spent looking at competitors is for analysis only. The new class of Republican freaks are instead experts at looking busy ... while they kill off the long-term potential of their business.

Pud, you can now go back to your sad, pathetic little life of "business is war" thinking. The pain that that philosophy buys you is something that makes me smile. RETARD!