Google runs the world

As an admitted Google fanatic, Microsoft's latest move to level the playing field come to no surprise to me. Last week, Microsoft proposed an unsolicitied $42 Billion dollar buyout for Yahoo Inc., a move that would make the world's largest software maker a fierce competitor in the online search market. Google, who controls roughly 75% of the internet's paid search, has come out in strong opposition to the news claiming that with the purchase of Yahoo, Microsoft may be able to stifle innovation and steer customers to their internet capabilities through their already dominating software. Google chief legal officer Michael Drummond wrote of the situation: "This is about more than simply a financial transaction, one company taking over another. It's about preserving the underlying principles of the Internet: openness and innovation." In response to this allegation, Microsofts' CEO Steve Ballmer claims that the acquisition of Yahoo would in fact raise competition in the industry rather than eliminate it. In any matter, if the $42 Billion dollar deal does go through, it is expected that antitrust regulators in the U.S. and Europe will launch an extensive review that could take up to a year.

Whatever happens, I'm still a Google girl. Any search that can give me an accompanying YouTube video is tops.