Google actively fighting Microsoft/Yahoo merger
WinInfo | at | by Mike
Conventional wisdom has it that Microsoft is obsessed with Google, and while there's certainly some truth to that, the reverse is equally true as well. That became obvious over the weekend when Google published an ill-conceived missive on the Web about Microsoft's plan to purchase Yahoo and began openly fighting the merger of the two companies' Internet operations.
"Microsoft's hostile bid for Yahoo raises troubling questions," Google senior vice president and chief legal officer David Drummond wrote in a blog entry published Sunday.