Re: Microsoft testifies Google-Yahoo "anti-competitive"

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In article <t-bone-5EA176.22534015072008@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Chance Furlong <t-bone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From Electronista:

http://tinyurl.com/5o5er7

Looks like Crybaby Microskank is having a hissy fit over Yahoo
supporting ads on Google. Microskank's legal counsel Brad Smith is
such
a whiny assed girlie bitch.

Cuss and discuss, folks, especially all ye Windroids. Let's see who
can
be the biggest crybaby bitches.

Microsoft testifies Google-Yahoo "anti-competitive"

Tuesday, July 15th

Microsoft today argued that US House and Senate Judiciary Committees
that the proposed Google/Yahoo deal, claiming that Yahoo's agreement
to
support ads through a non-exclusive deal is anti-competitive and would
allegedly hurt innovation. The legal counsel for Microsoft, Brad
Smith,
expresses fears that Google would control as much as 90 percent of
online advertising, allowing it to dictate prices and force companies
to
advertise through it for proper exposure. He also warns that Google
could potentially have a monopoly on Internet services.

"If search is the gateway to the Internet, and most believe that it
is,
this deal will put Google in a position to own that gateway and the
information that flows through it," Smith claims.

If Windows is the gateway to the Internet for 90% of users, one can
easily argue that Microsoft is in the same position as Google/Yahoo.
Maybe if MS was willing to give up its stranglehold, it might have more
credibility in trying to get Google/Yahoo to give up theirs.

I can buy a different operating system any time I want. I can even get
different operating systems for free. Likewise I can buy or get for
free
Web browsers and lots of different applications that don't come from M$.

How do I get the Internet to install a different major search engine any
time I want?

You can use a different search engine anytime you want...

Which other search engines get the results of either Yahoo or Google?

Your earlier example of operating systems didn't guaranteed equal
outcomes: just additional choices.

--
Alan Baker
Vancouver, British Columbia
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