Archive for February, 2008
YahSoft: Google Removes Gloves
February 3rd, 2008 • Internet
Tags: Google, microsoft, yahoo
An otherwise quiet Sunday, then Google slides the blog post equivalent of a B52 laden with armed nuclear warheads out of the hanger.
The post on its official blog, penned by their senior VP of Corporate Development, shows a forthright side to The Big G that we, the average consumers, never get to see. It asks many questions, perhaps the prime one being:
Could the acquisition of Yahoo! allow Microsoft — despite its legacy of serious legal and regulatory offenses — to extend unfair practices from browsers and operating systems to the Internet?
So for Google, the issue is the ‘preservation of the underlying principles of the internet: openess and innovation.
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