With Yang out, is Microsoft in at Yahoo?

Google's Search Monopoly

Stop supporting Big Brother Google's search monopoly. For the good of the consumer, Google needs a viable competitor.

Stevie bombs another prediction

Stevie's bashing Microsoft again. He should rename his blog to "The Microsoft Hater."

In his rush to bash Microsoft it appears he's overreached himself because Ballmer's telling his stockholders he's NOT interested in Yahoo!

http://redmondmag.com/reports/article.asp?EditorialsID=833

But you make a good point. Why do people like Stevie gush over Google? It dominates search like Microsoft dominates the desktop. Google is a for-profit gushing cash. Despite others talking about "free" stuff they give away like Gmail, it's an advertising revenue stream like their search engine.

Heck, Microsoft gives away free stuff too like the Express editions of their development tools. Do they get any credit? Heck no.

And, to be frank, Microsoft shouldn't because they have an angle there steering students toward being Windows-centric developers.

But then Google doesn't give away much without an angle either. Chrome, for example, is their shot at steering people to using their on-line apps.

So why are Stevie and other of his ilk so warm to Google? Because of the theory Google's cloud is a Windows killer. Anything that destroys Microsoft is inherently good.

If they succeed in killing off Microsoft and Google becomes the next evil empire do they care if they help create the monster? Of course not! It's just a new target of their santimony.

What changed Ballmer's mind?

You said: "In his rush to bash Microsoft it appears he's overreached himself because Ballmer's telling his stockholders he's NOT interested in Yahoo!"

If Ballmer aka Microsoft is not interested in Yahoo, then why did Microsoft make an offer which Yahoo then rejected? Clearly there was interest, so why is there now no interest? Unless it is a ploy to drive Yahoo's stock price down?

Answer:
Option A - Microsoft actually decided they don't need Yahoo. (not likely)
Option B - You are an idiot. (likely)

I'll betcha

After bad-mouthing Yahoo down, Ballmer will still end up buying Yahoo at a bargain price.

Steven

I agree... Google aint no

I agree... Google aint no angel..

Don't be the one that restricts others

So I guess you don't consider MSFT's "Live Search" (or any of the myriad of other search enginges, i.e. dogpile, mamma, aol, etc. etc.) competitors? See this link:
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/top_100_alternative_search_engines.php

If what you actually mean is that Google is the best in its class, then I'd have to agree with you, because it is.

I don't support monopoly, but I do like the fact that google's product for the end user has a very attractive price: FREE. Gmail also provides free POP access and many other features. For example, did you know you can upload your ODF/DOC/XLS/OTHER-FORMATS documents to google docs and then export them between formats or even as PDF? Does hotmail read ODF format?

Besides, you don't see Google trying to break the Internet for Microsoft/IE users like the way Microsoft is trying to do to the Linux/Firefox users. In fact, google uses Linux for its servers.

The difference between google and microsoft is that google uses technology to enable humans(no restrictions), whereas microsoft wants to restrict us all into paying them more money.

Google has figured out a way to make money without being greedy, and so because of this, I am not surprised that they welcome competitors onto their turf.

I once saw a video where google brought Linus Torvalds to their campus to speak to their employees.. What was funny is that Torvalds spent the whole time telling the googlers that their code repository sucked and that they should use his instead. Google, instead of making Torvalds leave their campus for saying bad things about their software, recorded the video and put it on the Internet.

Competition makes technology better for everyone, this is true. This is why GNU/Linux is such a great thing for microsoft users!! When you don't have competition, you get Vista, and must of us know how much that sucks.

What is also important is the paradigm of technology.
Technology must enable humankind, not restrict or attempt to vendor-lock humans for the sake of greed. Technology companies are already embracing this concept, those who do not are doomed.