Google logs on to Yahoo fray to thwart MSN deal

[ganeshbala]

Hi Acumen's

New York:

Online search giant Google has come out openly against Microsoft's $45-billion takeover bid for Yahoo, terming the deal as a threat to openness of the Internet.

Google's Chief Legal Officer and Senior Vice-President (Corporate Development) David Drummond said in a statement that "openness of the Internet is what made Google — and Yahoo! — possible."

But, Microsoft's Yahoo bid raises 'troubling questions' in relation to the preservance of openness and innovation — two underlying principles of the Internet, Drummond said in a statement posted on the official blog of Google.

Meanwhile, Wall Street Journal reported that Google CEO Eric Schmidt has called on Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang to offer his company's help in an effort to thwart Microsoft's bid.

Drummond said Microsoft had often tried to establish proprietary monopolies and questioning whether it would seek to exert same sort of inappropriate and illegal influence over the Internet that it did with the PC.

SOURCE - ibnlive.com