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kiee1

IwRITE THIS onky becouse of cause ,I doo belive Microsoft will buy Yahoo ,or . Google . I have know idea wich one . I am betting it all on Yahoo only because of software combatability still I dont know. My bet Yahoo . 60% to40% It is that close read lrarn one of the two is gone good choosing

kiee1

As google will fall in its shares it will be bought by microsoft , any developer or just comman langage know this as the software is united everyone kn ows microsoft will take this company A good bet buy. as microsoft aready has google software in its new operating systen . It wikll be Yahoo , or Google , The one not chosen is doomed. 1 Will survive my pick google. What company that belongs to microsoft will cost them dearly and either one they chooose will at leasy Quadruble value I belive a 50t 50t choice good luck Yahoo I will recomend

johnmullinax

I think this may be somewhat misguided in a couple ways. Firstly, the recently announced anti-competitive investigation by DoJ re: Apple and Google overlapping boards does not necessarily imply a monopoly problem... for example, collusion between supposed competitors is also anti-competitive behavior and is illegal.

Secondly, while you're right to point out that the being a monopoly is not by itself illegal, it *is* illegal to use your monopoly power to maintain your market dominance.

Let me give an example: If Google is a search monopoly, and their dominance stems from a much larger database of search behavior to analyze and refine their algorythms, and their database of user search behavior is the result of people searching on Google... then it could be argued that they are using their monopoly position in search share to reinforce that monopoly - which I think might be cross the line into illegal behavior.

A remedy for somethign like this might be ...(Read more of this comment)requiring Google to allow all competitors to have access to that database of search behavior to develop, test, and refine their own algorythms. This does not seem materially different than requiring Microsoft to share proprietary OS data to help competitors build better applications to compete with Office, IE, etc, IMHO.

I do believe there's some truth to the idea that Google is a victim of it's success -- but the same is true for every monopoly that has emerged in a free market.(Show less of this comment)