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Monday, November 03, 2003
MS-Google Talk Likely Overblown, But Then Again...
Kevin Lee is justifiably astounded at the media frenzy around some ill-defined communications between Google and Microsoft. The Simpsons episode where Gates instructs his henchmen to "buy him out, boys," and they march into Homer's office and bust up his desk and snap his pencils may be as close to factual reporting at the widely-cited New York Times story Microsoft and Google: Partners or Rivals?
My first clue that this wasn't first-rate journalism was the paragraph that alluded to Google "wheedling [sic] down a long list of investment banks." Where is that legendary New York Times quality control?
Maybe they're trying to compete with the New York Post, which has been known to run items by noted dot-com-rumor-purveyor Ben Silverman. Rumors aren't always so far off, though. Silverman was wrong when he said Yahoo! wanted Espotting (it wound up being FindWhat-Espotting and Yahoo-Overture), but the Overture-Yahoo deal was relentlessly rumored for months on the Yahoo Finance message board.
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Andrew Goodman
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