Microsoft-Yahoo: Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid, Google Says
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Yahoo's fiercest competitor, Google, has raised concerns about the possibility of Microsoft's takeover. Google's motives, of course, are hardly pure.
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Charles Arthur: Why Google might benefit from Microsoft's attempt to shoehorn Yahoo into itself
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Google executives have long conceded that one of their great fears is to be overtaken by a more advanced Internet search technology.
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Microsoft Corp.  is set to  launch a blistering attack on rival Google Inc.
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Three years after Yahoo was the search leader, online ads weren't so huge and Microsoft's dominance on every PC was undisputed, Google's success has threatened its rivals so that a merger may happen.
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Microsoft Corp plans to invest heavily  in Web search to compete against Google Inc, even if it fails  to acquire Yahoo Inc, the company's chairman Bill Gates said on  Monday.
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By Alan MacDermid  WHAT, only a billion dollars? What have they been doing for the past three months? It's not the reaction you normally expect to good news, but Google, the search engine that threatens to eat cyberspace, has just had a hard lesson in avarice from its shareholders.
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Google Inc. raised the specter of Microsoft Corp. using its proposed $42 billion acquisition of Yahoo Inc. to gain illegal control over the Internet, underscoring the online search leader's queasiness about its two biggest rivals teaming up.
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Microsoft Corp. said on Monday it  expects rival Google Inc. to file a complaint with a federal  judge arguing that changes Microsoft has agreed to make to its  Windows Vista operating system fall short of addressing  concerns that its computer search function puts Google and  other potential competitors at a disadvantage.
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Google Inc  fired back on  Sunday at Microsoft Corp's  $44.6 billion bid to  acquire Yahoo Inc , accusing Microsoft of seeking to  extend its computer software monopoly deeper into the Internet  realm.
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Announcements by Yahoo and Google show that Microsoft faces challenges to its business software franchises.
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InfoWorld - The Web is scarier than most people realize, according to research published recently by Google.
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Unable to topple Google Inc. on its own, Microsoft Corp. is trying to force crippled rival Yahoo Inc. into a shotgun marriage, with a wager worth nearly $42 billion that the two companies together will have a better chance of tackling the Internet search leader.
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Jerry Yang faces enormous pressure as he decides whether to try to rescue the company from Microsoft, or accept the bid and watch Yahoo become part of Microsoftâs arsenal in its no-holds-barred brawl with Google.
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Google has made its first official comments on&#160;Microsoft&#39;s proposed acquisition of Yahoo&#160;saying that the deal raises &quot;troubling questions&quot; and that the underlying principles of the Internet stand to be tested by the proposed deal.
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Business & money: Microsoft purchase of Yahoo would create an unacceptably dominant online business, says Google
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With Google Inc.  taking a  dominant lead in the Internet search market, it looks  increasingly likely that Microsoft Corp.  could make a  large acquisition, such as of Yahoo Inc. , Merrill  Lynch said on Friday.