Google is a cry-baby
I like Google. Or rather I liked Google. Past tense because they are impressing me less and less as they grow. Their ego is becoming unmanageable. Check out this official Google blog post about their thoughts on Microsoft’s bid for Yahoo!.
My thoughts and feelings can be summed up with a simple phrase, “Google, you’re a whiny little bitch”. To understand what gave birth to my now growing distrust and disapproval of Google read on.
As an intelligent internet user and a highly opinionated individual, I feel it is my duty to rant about life’s nonsense. This is where this blog begins. Opinionado because Opinionated was taken. On the rocks, because I thought that would be clever.
Back to Google. Right off the bat Google pissed me off. They began their blog post by preaching internet “openness”.
The openness of the Internet is what made Google — and Yahoo! — possible. A good idea that users find useful spreads quickly. Businesses can be created around the idea. Users benefit from constant innovation. It’s what makes the Internet such an exciting place.
Apparently both Google and Yahoo! are “open” but the implication is that Microsoft isn’t. Could somebody please explain to me what it means to be open? By “open” Google is probably referring to how “open” they are about their plans for global domination. I guess it is a trend these days. A trend to say shit about Microsoft. Hell yeah, all the cool kids are doing it (see Apple). I don’t understand it. Why does everybody hate on Microsoft? I can’t help but smell jealousy in the air. But then I ask myself, jealousy for what?
So Microsoft’s hostile bid for Yahoo! raises troubling questions. This is about more than simply a financial transaction, one company taking over another. It’s about preserving the underlying principles of the Internet: openness and innovation.
Check this stuff out. Google is preaching about preserving the underlying principles of the Internet. I’m sorry but what principals are those and how is Microsoft endangering them??? Oh right, “openness and innovation”. Right but how is Microsoft endangering them? See Google just can’t let go of this openness issue. I need someone to help me understand who died and crowned Google a saint. Because they are definitely not a utopian business.
Could Microsoft now attempt to exert the same sort of inappropriate and illegal influence over the Internet that it did with the PC? While the Internet rewards competitive innovation, Microsoft has frequently sought to establish proprietary monopolies — and then leverage its dominance into new, adjacent markets.
The gloves are off. I always thought Apple was bad, but wow Google you surprise me. I’m particularly surprised that you use words like “monopoly” when referring to somebody other than yourself. Last time I checked, you had 60% 70% market share. Yes I made the 60% up, but apparently it’s true, just search Google. This whole rant of yours stinks of hypocrisy and I have a strong distaste for hypocrisy. Because in essence it means that you’re either stupid, or you consider us stupid and assume we won’t pick up on your hypocrisy. I’m banking on it being the latter case, which continues to rub me the wrong way.
I was going to continue to embarrass Google with my witty rhetoric but I’m getting bored. Google’s post has no substance. They are like a rich and spoiled teenager who picks their nose when nobody is looking but makes a fuss when somebody else does it. It pisses me off that they try to get on my side by preaching Internet morals and values and then make money with their oh-so-abundant advertisements on every page. All this makes me almost want to close my Gmail accounts and move to Yahoo!.
Shame on you Google, shame on you!
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The problem with MS buying Yahoo! is the monopoly that it creates. I think the openness they are talking about is in reference to the competition space.
In terms of the Internet, Microsoft has in many ways failed to innovate. The broken IE is a good example of this. And their latest attempt at innovation in browser technology is simply fantastic (see this, http://www.alistapart.com/articles/beyonddoctype ). The MS search engine sucks. The whole live.x thing is a failure. Rather than supporting open standards (for example, SVG) they are pushing their own thing, Silverlight.
Microsoft doesn’t know what to do about Google anymore. They are now trying to do what has worked in the past, buying someone who will give them a stranglehold on the industry. In my opinion, MS should not be allowed to buy Yahoo!. Maybe that will force them to come up with something useful for the internet. Or maybe they will finally fix IE.
Valid points perhaps about Microsoft’s internet-shenanigans but to say that Microsoft buying Yahoo! creates a monopoly is almost a lie. When Google bought out DoubleClick, nobody yelled monopoly. Not to mention that Google has ~70% engine market share right now. Even if Microsoft’s bid is finalized, they will at most have ~30%. That’s not even close to a monopoly.
And I don’t think Microsoft is bidding on Yahoo! because they want to directly compete with Google. I think they may very well be going for something more. Yahoo!’s strength has never been in the search anyway, but rather in the services they offer (finance, Flickr, etc).
If anybody has a stranglehold on the industry, its Google, not Microsoft. Acquiring Yahoo! will at best lessen Google’s grip, nothing more.
P.S. I’ve linked your blog!
Interesting read about Google’s naughtiness.
“When Google bought out DoubleClick, nobody yelled monopoly.”
I’m pretty sure lots of people did, including…
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/09/microsoft-tells.html
You’re also forgetting that anyone that buys Yahoo! automagically has access to the most trafficked website on the internet. See http://www.alexa.com/site/ds/top_500
Like Alex said, Yahoo! does have some nice properties like Flickr, del.icio.us, and Answers. Microsoft trying to buyout Yahoo! has nothing to do with search and everything to do with accumulating these proven social services.