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Microsoft eyeing Yahoo takeover!

I hope many of you would have seen this headline recently, in case you missed it here are few links I came across:

http://www.ibnlive.com/news/business/05_2007/microsoft-eyeing-yahoo-takeover-39765.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070504/ap_on_hi_te/microsoft_yahoo

Are you surprised? I am not. This definitely a big breaking news but not a surprise. Microsoft and Yahoo both companies were feeling the heat increasing dominance and market share of Google. Google has now entered almost all spheres of internet-based services. It has been doing really good and in some cases provided some path-breaking services. Microsoft and Yahoo were the original market leaders but these days they are mostly trying to catch up with Google.

Microsoft is surely the strongest in desktop application and proprietary softwares. Yahoo was doing good and had a huge head start with Google concentrating on search business for long. But search alone has earned Google a huge population of faithfuls on the web and when it choose to diversify it didn't have sweat it out to get people to start using its services. Also, personally I like Google services better simple they give lots features for free service which others give in their paid services and all Google services are by far more simpler to use.

Hats off to Google!! If this merger happens I don't see Google getting threatened by it but it definitely shows Google has been doing everything right all these days.
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