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M$ and Google (Read 266 times)

Nov 1^st, 2003 at 7:00am

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As I'm sure many of you have heard M$ has expressed interest in buying Google, and Google is planning to float its shares shortly.
What do you all think about this. Personally I'm not in favour of M$ getting hold of Google, it'd probably stop working, or they'd limit access or something.

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Reply #1 - Nov 1^st, 2003 at 7:07am

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depends on what they then plan to do with it, as googles search is alot like yahoos, and they both work together.

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Reply #2 - Nov 1^st, 2003 at 7:21am

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Bad idea. If M$ get their hands on Google I'll have to find something else. Angry

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Reply #3 - Nov 1^st, 2003 at 7:24am

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Personally I'm not in favour of M$ getting hold of Google, it'd probably stop working, or they'd limit access or something.

Lol, or they would upgrade it every 2 days, for our convienience of course Wink

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Reply #4 - Nov 1^st, 2003 at 8:43am

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I love Google, I use it all the time and I can never remember having any problems with it, this is probably due to the simplicity of the program, if M$ buys it, they will probably try to change it into something fancy that sucks and then charge you $9.95 a month to use it.

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Reply #5 - Nov 1^st, 2003 at 10:27am

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and good bye pop-up blocker because it comes along wiht the toolbar

On the other hand, Yahoo toolbar is noiw getting a pop up stopper beta and the search is just as good as google, maybe not the the same but pretty much equal. I have the yahoo toolbar and its great but thats irrelevant.

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Reply #6 - Nov 1^st, 2003 at 10:31am

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If MS buys Google, Yahoo will change. Yahoo searches come from Google... Angry

99.9 percent of the web is run off of 5 search engines anyway and MSN is already one of the top engines. What happens if MS gets THE top search engine as well?

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Reply #7 - Nov 1^st, 2003 at 12:51pm