The New York Times has published reports that Google.com, the most popular search engine on the internet, has been quietly courting the notion of a merger with Microsoft for the past two months.
Google, the immensely popular internet search engine (founded by Stanford computer science graduate students Sergey Brin and Larry Page), recently celebrated its 5-year birthday this past September and has quickly became one of the most popular Web sites in the world. In recent weeks, the internet giant has become the subject of intense speculation since it indicated to Wall Street the plans to sell shares of itself to the public sometime in the first half of 2004.
Microsoft has been looking to enter the popular and ad-generating search engine business, and according to the article, approached Google within the last two months to discuss options, including a potential takeover. Meanwhile, Google is meeting with bankers in preparation for its highly anticipated initial public offering. The Times says Microsoft's attempts appear to have gained little interest as Google indicates it still prefers the IPO route, which has been speculated to garner sales figures between $15 billion and $20 billion or more.
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They will totally ruin internet for everyone.
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Google was good to use when you got tired of dealing with Yahoo!s worthless flash ads and cluttered news, and now, we'll have to deal with that.
Microsoft sucks. Internet Explorer sucks. Bill Gates sucks because he has like, billions of dollars and won't loan me a few million. Jerk.
all the M$ bashers really need to knock it off. quietly sulking about M$, go for it, but you don't see me whining and bitching at every single Mac post, do you?
this might actually be good for Google, not to mention it's creators who deserve a 6+ figure sum for all their hard work and dedication.
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