Friday, November 7, 2008

The DOJ decides to get involved in the Google/Yahoo agreement, and Google backs down. Unfortunately, Google is too young to remember that the DOJ is all bark and no bite. In the 90's it tried to label Microsoft as a monopoly, unsucessfully. Everyone in the world knows that Microsoft is a monopoly, except the DOJ. Previously, it went after IBM, and after years of ligitation the DOJ left IBM alone without ever finding anything. The bottom line is now that Yahoo is left to the vultures, Microsoft is likely to pick it apart, and Yahoo will be a footnote in the history of the internet. That's too bad because Yahoo has been a staple in the internet space. A company of creative and invative minds, unlike Microsoft, a company that steals or bullies their products from other companies. Hopefully, Yahoo will find a competent suiter that will take over the search business. Lets keep our fingers crossed.

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