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Posted by unregistered user at 2/21/08 2:52 p.m.

"And when you start to have companies that control the operating system, control the browsers, they really tie up the top Web sites, and can be used to manipulate stuff in various ways. I think that's unnerving."

LOL. But when you have one company controlling 60-80% of the search-related advertising upon which much of the web 2.0 infrastructure is built on and tracking our personal search preferences and caching them for years, no problem. These guys are funny.

Posted by RJam at 2/21/08 3:41 p.m.

Advertising is optional for the user. I don't have to click on it. I rarely do unless I am curious. If I want something I use GOOGLE search and get the information I need to make a judgment on what I purchase. If someone is a compulsive buyer then they have other issues to address. GOOGLE has a great product and they rock and roll. They are only interested in making their products great so the customer is served well.

Posted by unregistered user at 2/21/08 5:20 p.m.

I dont care what the Google founder says. YAHOO WAS internet. YAHOO IS internet. And YAHOO WILL BE internet.

Posted by unregistered user at 2/21/08 5:30 p.m.

Poster RJam - incorrect. I can't turn off advertising, its not optional. You're defending a shark.

Microsoft brands Windows, SQL, etc. with its name. Apple brands iPod, iPhone with its name. Google brands THE INTERNET with its name.

The other poster is right, its the pot calling the kettle black.

Posted by unregistered user at 2/21/08 7:31 p.m.

jerry wang's attitude (rather lose a pinky than give specific company X control) has NO place in BUSINESS. He sounds like he is really out of his element.

Posted by unregistered user at 2/21/08 11:42 p.m.

If Yahoo! goes to Microsoft, will they still use Flash, or will we all have to download Silverlight?

Will Yahoo! work in Firefox?

I do find it troubling that a company that has failed on the Web will now control the number one destination on the Web, and then be in a position to "force" me to use software I don't want to be able to view that part of the Web.

And then there's the issues of privacy. MSFT controls my ISP's online account system via that clunky Live ID thing, my IM, my web email, my photos, my bookmarks, part of my search history, by Yahoo! Finance porfolios, what I read...

Posted by unregistered user at 2/22/08 12:12 a.m.

I find this google statement unnevering. Did you know that today google announced they will be storing patient records?

http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/22/0020211

At least with Microsoft, we know that they are SO paranoid about everything that they won't mess with legal stuff, specially with EU and all that. Noone even pays attention to google while they store our emails, our word documents, our web pages and now our medical records.

If you're not convinced yet that Google is the real threat to privacy and internet freedom, then just wait till you're denied employment b/c your google profile shows that you have diabetes. Or can't get an apartment b/c you have a medically allowed marijuana prescription.

Thank you google, thank you Eric Schmidt for keeping the "internet" "free".

Posted by unregistered user at 2/22/08 6:46 a.m.

In a few years, that whole "Do No Evil" thing is really going to start to bite Google in the behind.

Posted by unregistered user at 2/22/08 7:09 a.m.

Its no news that the Google founders are not the makers of all the products they have now but instead are reaping the rewards of the people who really worked their asses off to get things revolutionized....these hard workers are out from there and heading towards newer and better technologies....bubble and you will only burst. YHOO is the . in the .com
forgot those days when they gave you a hand to walk the internet path...they still have more experience

Posted by unregistered user at 2/22/08 8:43 a.m.

well Google might be bad just as microsoft but I dont think its microsoft to make them go clean, microsoft is simple jealous about Google because they know what Google is enjoying as they had enjoyed that in the past and their jealousy is what is making them try to bring Google back. I must say if another company like baidu in china starts fighting Google and wanting to buy Yahoo, then every body will be ok and see Google as the bad guy, but if its Microsoft I must say its jealousy thats pushing them

Posted by unregistered user at 2/23/08 12:01 p.m.

"jealousy"

You used that word alot, as though you were discussing two PEOPLE. Just because the media SIMPLIFIES a large company into a simple "bill gates" or "steve ballmer" shouldn't fool you into doing the same thing. These human emotions are not an overall emotion of a company of 70,000 people. Thats silly thinking. You'd be better served to try to understand a company's actions in terms of PROFIT and LOSS and OPPORTUNITY.