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Any chance maybe one will shoot the other's top intern, and that starts off a bloody vendetta war where EVERYONE dies (employees, friends, fam, customers) and it ends with both top execs having some big show down in a server room, but the smoke from one of their gun nozzle's sets off the sprinkler system, electrocuting them both?]]>Feb 3rd 2008 9:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/google-questions-microsofts-bid-for-yahoo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/google-questions-microsofts-bid-for-yahoo/Apr 4th 2008 5:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/google-questions-microsofts-bid-for-yahoo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/google-questions-microsofts-bid-for-yahoo/Feb 3rd 2008 7:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/google-questions-microsofts-bid-for-yahoo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/google-questions-microsofts-bid-for-yahoo/Feb 4th 2008 1:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/google-questions-microsofts-bid-for-yahoo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/google-questions-microsofts-bid-for-yahoo/Feb 3rd 2008 7:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/google-questions-microsofts-bid-for-yahoo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/google-questions-microsofts-bid-for-yahoo/
Spell it out, i'm slow.]]>Feb 4th 2008 8:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/google-questions-microsofts-bid-for-yahoo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/google-questions-microsofts-bid-for-yahoo/Feb 3rd 2008 7:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/google-questions-microsofts-bid-for-yahoo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/google-questions-microsofts-bid-for-yahoo/It's embarrassing that Google, though, feels the need to comment.
After all, if they indeed have the better product, then the need to comment on said merger should be superfluous.

What does Google have to fear?
I mean, they're Google, aren't they? The company that can do no wrong?
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Hello Microsoft.]]>Feb 3rd 2008 8:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/google-questions-microsofts-bid-for-yahoo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/google-questions-microsofts-bid-for-yahoo/
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Microsoft has their own search engine, e-mail, and messaging program now. If they're not "BLOCKING" Google now, why would they start?

Crybabies.]]>Feb 3rd 2008 8:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/google-questions-microsofts-bid-for-yahoo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/google-questions-microsofts-bid-for-yahoo/Feb 3rd 2008 8:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/google-questions-microsofts-bid-for-yahoo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/google-questions-microsofts-bid-for-yahoo/Feb 3rd 2008 8:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/google-questions-microsofts-bid-for-yahoo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/google-questions-microsofts-bid-for-yahoo/Feb 3rd 2008 8:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/google-questions-microsofts-bid-for-yahoo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/google-questions-microsofts-bid-for-yahoo/
ORLY!~!!!!!!
When Micro$oft is "commited to openness, innovation, and protection of privacy", the Sun will rise from the WEST]]>Feb 3rd 2008 8:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/google-questions-microsofts-bid-for-yahoo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/google-questions-microsofts-bid-for-yahoo/Feb 4th 2008 4:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/google-questions-microsofts-bid-for-yahoo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/google-questions-microsofts-bid-for-yahoo/Feb 3rd 2008 8:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/google-questions-microsofts-bid-for-yahoo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/google-questions-microsofts-bid-for-yahoo/Feb 3rd 2008 8:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/google-questions-microsofts-bid-for-yahoo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/google-questions-microsofts-bid-for-yahoo/
I'm not sure if you know anything about business practices, but Microsoft offered yahoo an OFFER to buy it. Im not sure what that means to you but to me, Yahoo can clearly tell Microsoft to fuck off and tell them that they're not interested, as they've done before in the past. I'm pretty sure that's not buying a company against they're will.

Just my $0.02.]]>Feb 4th 2008 2:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/google-questions-microsofts-bid-for-yahoo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/google-questions-microsofts-bid-for-yahoo/Feb 4th 2008 11:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/google-questions-microsofts-bid-for-yahoo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/google-questions-microsofts-bid-for-yahoo/Feb 4th 2008 1:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/google-questions-microsofts-bid-for-yahoo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/google-questions-microsofts-bid-for-yahoo/Feb 4th 2008 9:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/google-questions-microsofts-bid-for-yahoo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/google-questions-microsofts-bid-for-yahoo/Feb 4th 2008 11:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/google-questions-microsofts-bid-for-yahoo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/google-questions-microsofts-bid-for-yahoo/
That's almost as bad as me calling you as dumbass.]]>Feb 5th 2008 6:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/google-questions-microsofts-bid-for-yahoo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/google-questions-microsofts-bid-for-yahoo/Feb 5th 2008 7:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/google-questions-microsofts-bid-for-yahoo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/google-questions-microsofts-bid-for-yahoo/
What I'm trying to say is, so what if it doesn't flow with Yahoo!'s brass, if the true owners, the share holders, agree with it then it is going by Yahoo!'s wishes. They aren't being forced to sell.

I guess the Yahoo! employees might be forced to work for a merged company, but they are just employees, not owners.]]>Feb 5th 2008 8:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/google-questions-microsofts-bid-for-yahoo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/google-questions-microsofts-bid-for-yahoo/Feb 5th 2008 8:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/google-questions-microsofts-bid-for-yahoo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/google-questions-microsofts-bid-for-yahoo/Feb 5th 2008 9:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/google-questions-microsofts-bid-for-yahoo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/google-questions-microsofts-bid-for-yahoo/
WTF?

And in other news Engadget launch their latest column "The Microsoft Rant".
If Microsoft aren't open, then Apple is China!]]>Feb 3rd 2008 8:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/google-questions-microsofts-bid-for-yahoo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/google-questions-microsofts-bid-for-yahoo/A Micro$oft "china" is bad because not only the content SUCKS but the design SUCKS too
gg]]>Feb 3rd 2008 8:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/google-questions-microsofts-bid-for-yahoo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/google-questions-microsofts-bid-for-yahoo/
This was completely uncalled for. Microsoft's info-gathering services (the "customer experience improvement program"s) are completely optional, and assured as anonymous usage data; any thing in violation of said privacy protection is a violation of the law. Microsoft didn't cave to China's assault on freedom; Google did. Microsoft and Yahoo! have been able to share IM networks for what, 2 years prior to this offer? Yeah, huge sign that Microsoft is against interoperability.

And, as Mr. Smith points out, Google's marketshare in Internet revenue and search services is above and beyond Microsoft and Yahoo!'s combined. They can stop their bitching right about now.

Microsoft+Yahoo!=]]>Feb 3rd 2008 8:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/google-questions-microsofts-bid-for-yahoo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/google-questions-microsofts-bid-for-yahoo/Feb 3rd 2008 8:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/google-questions-microsofts-bid-for-yahoo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/google-questions-microsofts-bid-for-yahoo/Feb 3rd 2008 8:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/google-questions-microsofts-bid-for-yahoo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/google-questions-microsofts-bid-for-yahoo/
Does Google share your opinion?


watch this:
http://www.masterplanthemovie.com/]]>Feb 3rd 2008 8:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/google-questions-microsofts-bid-for-yahoo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/google-questions-microsofts-bid-for-yahoo/
The problem: While they both have their downfalls, Google, once your email hits their servers takes almost full control of it. They could do anything they want with it and there is nothing you can do. Microsoft on the other hand takes a much more standoffish approach. They don't claim your email as theirs and have limits on what they do with it. This is very important for personal communications and privacy.

Microsoft may not be perfect on privacy, but Google is far from a champion too.]]>Feb 4th 2008 12:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/google-questions-microsofts-bid-for-yahoo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/google-questions-microsofts-bid-for-yahoo/Feb 3rd 2008 8:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/google-questions-microsofts-bid-for-yahoo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/google-questions-microsofts-bid-for-yahoo/
Wow, you just made Google's point and you don't even know it!

Sharing between 2 proprietary networks isn't anywhere as good as the approach Google took with GTalk, that is basically Jabber and is compatible with any Jabber network.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Talk#Interoperability]]>Feb 3rd 2008 8:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/google-questions-microsofts-bid-for-yahoo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/google-questions-microsofts-bid-for-yahoo/http://timlambert.org/2003/11/tcs/]]>Feb 3rd 2008 8:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/google-questions-microsofts-bid-for-yahoo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/google-questions-microsofts-bid-for-yahoo/Feb 3rd 2008 8:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/google-questions-microsofts-bid-for-yahoo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/google-questions-microsofts-bid-for-yahoo/
Are these guys crybabies or what? ]]>Feb 3rd 2008 8:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/google-questions-microsofts-bid-for-yahoo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/google-questions-microsofts-bid-for-yahoo/
Any chance maybe one will shoot the other's top intern, and that starts off a bloody vendetta war where EVERYONE dies (employees, friends, fam, customers) and it ends with both top execs having some big show down in a server room, but the smoke from one of their gun nozzle's sets off the sprinkler system, electrocuting them both?]]>Feb 3rd 2008 9:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/google-questions-microsofts-bid-for-yahoo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/google-questions-microsofts-bid-for-yahoo/Feb 3rd 2008 9:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/google-questions-microsofts-bid-for-yahoo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/google-questions-microsofts-bid-for-yahoo/
This is one hell of a case of the pot calling the kettle black.]]>Feb 3rd 2008 9:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/google-questions-microsofts-bid-for-yahoo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/google-questions-microsofts-bid-for-yahoo/http://www.tshirthell.com/store/product.php?productid=812

Just thought that I would punctuate what you said (I agree) with this.]]>Feb 4th 2008 5:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/google-questions-microsofts-bid-for-yahoo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/google-questions-microsofts-bid-for-yahoo/
WTF? They got guts to say that.]]>Feb 3rd 2008 9:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/google-questions-microsofts-bid-for-yahoo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/03/google-questions-microsofts-bid-for-yahoo/Feb 3rd 2008 9:17PM