Do not rely in the absence of election posters4 billion gain realized by Jérôme Kerviel in 2007However two days Ségolène Royal shellsIt is one of the most important sites in the worldThe redistribution of oil revenues is a key issue in ChadEach will have its criteria for participationThey are totally inadequate in today's worldFor the French manufacturer the event is importantDo you think a Republican victory in NovemberYesA plant in mourning summarizes the architectIs "Sainte-alliance" of the "good guys" of the Internet against "the evil empire" emerging to counter the Yahoo! takeover attempt launched by Microsoft One thing is certain: Google will do everything to prevent the software giant to hand on the Internet portal. As early as Friday evening, the number one research on the Net has denounced the risk that such an alliance would run in the competition. And Eric Schmidt, Google's CEO, called Jerry Yang, Yahoo! counterpart, to assure him of its support for the offer "unsolicited" of Microsoft. Support that could take the form of partnerships targeted in advertising or engines research, or from a through to other players likely to make a competing offer from Microsoft. Because the assumption of a friendly contre-OPA of Google on Yahoo!, which would create an archi-dominante entity on the Internet, does not take the road with the anti-trust authorities.
Microsoft also already denounced the monopoly of Google, "which raised 75 percent of the world market of Internet searches" and drains of 30 to 40 of the advertising online. Steve Ballmer Group argued that, on the contrary, the new Microsoft-Yahoo entity! "would stimulate competition, since it would establish a strong competitor in the position of number two."
"Escaping the Octopus".
Yahoo!, which seeks to save time, repeated yesterday that the offer of Microsoft "is one option among others." In fact, the le PDG CEO of Californian company, Jerry Yang, studying all options to escape the Octopus Microsoft (read below). Covered by the offensive of Microsoft, seeking to regain control of the Internet, Google has therefore raised a shot of dam against the "world company". "Could it that Microsoft is trying to exercise the same type of unlawful influence on the PC on the Internet", writes on his blog the Google Legal Director, David Drummond.
Fall of an icon
More prosaically, Google to Washington lobbyists are already working on an anti-trust case. And this is not all. Over the weekend, the leaders of Google contacted allies in Time Warner, owner of AOL, to offer their assistance in the event where the media giant would consider make a competing offer from Microsoft. Google owns 5 of AOL.
If Silicon Valley despair to attend the fall of one of its icons, Internet professionals are skeptical that the salvation of Yahoo! comes from Microsoft. The spectrum of Netscape, absorbed by AOL in 1999, still haunts the Valley. And marriage missed between AOL and Time Warner became the case to avoid. "My concern is that we are witnessing destruction of the value of Yahoo! rather than to the emergence of a synergy where each part contributes its best to create value", wrote Robert Scoble, former Microsoft and renowned blogger.
"In the long term, efforts to tie together two lose proposals in the hope of provoking the spark of success have never market," said his side Scott Rosenberg. The founder of the famous webzine "Salon" prophesying that the acquisition by Microsoft will inevitably lead to a leak in the brains of Yahoo!. In Google, of course. Sergey Brin and Larry Page are sufficiently clever to open wide the doors of their "Googleplex" and retrieve the material gray Yahoo!, leaving Microsoft but a hollow shell purchased $ 45 billion.
