Microsoft to take over Google ?

[Methuselas]

Obviously, YOU don't live in Texas. They stil have to campaign and be voted into office. That's how it's done here. Yes, they are appointed their terms for life, but we still have the right to 'vote' them into office. How they do it your home state, is different. Then again, I've lived in Texas for 10 years and this is one of the most @$$-backwards states I've ever lived in. How a state could make a 'right to work' a priviledge is beyond me.

[Kent]

If MS were to purchase google, I'd either stop searching the web or find some other non-microsoft affiliated search engine to use.  I would even chip in my two bits to a company who started a service much like google with the entire logic geared around thumbing their noses at microsoft.  I despise MS.  I find it unfortunate that one of my larger contracts requires me to use Windows for development (IIS and ASPs) otherwise I wouldn't touch the junk.

:pint:

[MobbyG]

I am really surprised that Bill hasn't taken over the Utilities of the US yet.??

Bill Gates = Illuminati

Think about it....   :-D

[mikeymike]

The worst part is, google have been hoarding everyone's searches for a decade.

A decade?  Four years at the very most.  Most people used Altavista, Yahoo et al up till that time.

[toRus]

That's unlikely to happen despite M$ strong interest in Search Engine technology lately and google's problems. They can't afford to pay so much money just to kill the opposition. M$ is working in their own search engine which will be as unbiased and robust as all their existing products ;-)