Well now this will get interesting. Is Google really becoming a monopoly in the advertising sector?

FIRST POST!!!!

I ROCK!!!!

erm yeah. Go google. Google rocks.

how is microsoft going to complain about antitrust laws when they are the biggest monopoly in history. i think the quantity of computers is more than the number of cars in the world. guess how many of those computers have microsoft windows installed on them? hahahah! this reminds me of siblings fighting over who got the biggest slice of cake.

Google is getting bigger and bigger to the extent that Microsoft is panicking.

Can't say that I find this good in the same way I don't find current Microsoft dominance good.

Google advantage is that they are involved into "future". Most likely current internet trend will not slow down and possible outcome can be that operating system will lose it's importance.

Microsoft is trying for long time to enter into the market but with poor results. Not sure how long Microsoft would stand to play minor role in this area.

That's why I'm almost 100% sure that rather sooner than later we will witness "the clash of giants".

Will it be “legal” battle or we would see financial battle its to be seen. Its Microsoft turn now they have almost unlimited funds and army of people working for them so if they decide to strike I am sure they would strike hard.

microsoft just got its feelings hurt cause google bought double click right out from under them. i sure hope microsoft loses every fight they set against google. as far as investigation into antitrust issues, no laws have been broken. there are other companies out there besides double click that microsoft can buy. get over it microsoft. you cant win them all...

Meet Kettle.

I agree, MS has no rights here as they own their own market entirely. However, with google's rising fame and market share, they may look at a google OS... maybe this is why MS is scared into fighting now before they think its too late ;)

I'm tired of reading about people crying that microsoft is all powerfull. If you don't like their OS then don't use it, it's as simple as that. Secondly microsoft was FORCED to split apart because as a company they were growing too large, if google becomes too large as a company i have no sympathy if they have to split. I use google almost every day, but there's still no justice in playing favorites.

So they just go whine to "mommy" (the government) if they don't get their way? Its called the free-market economy. They've been playing hardball and bullying people for years. Sucks to be on the other side of it doesn't it Microsoft?

TBH if Goggle became a top dog in marketing who really cares? they are doing a good job... Now if they were doing bad, we would care. Google = love MS = Hate

MS! why not spend 3.1Billion and fix Vista

Is Google the tighter?

if things really come down to a MS vs Google battle, i will have little trouble supporting google. They are very consumer centric, and promote good ideas. Hell, when was the last time microsoft had an april fools day joke? Google connects people, and connects to people. Just because a corporation is large doesn't make it bad. If apple made 90% of the worlds Operating systems - i wouldn't care. They do a good job.

I think Google bought it just to spite Microsoft. Last I checked (within the last year) Microsoft was losing money with their online services, while Google was making (profits not revenue) $1,000,000 per employee.

Microsoft has a huge advantage in that they make the OS on almost every PC sold, and thereby set everyone's default preferences. It would be in Google's interest to make Microsoft crash and burn, and personally, I would call that (killing MS) a humanitarian quest. I'm upset about Microsoft's existence

I don't care how big Google gets. They innovate and make good software. Microsoft mangles together Windows XP and Mac OS X, and gives us Vista, which is 3 years late to market, missing half the features, and still loaded with problems.

AT&T (formerly known as SBC, Cingular and AT&T) has less room than Microsoft to talk about unfair buyouts.

All of you MS haters me included ,need to look at this from a 3rd person perspective.Many companies put pressure on MS(microsft) because of their business tactics and crying foul play.I see MS doing the same to other companies (crying foul)growing big and taking advantage of of an area they accel in.Come on now let's get realistic we don' like MS having total control over the OS/pc market I don't see too many people in the futre being happy with google owning the internet either which I think in the longrun is much worse.

Justin, people have to keep using Microsoft's products because, since they have such a massive monopoly, a lot of things are not supported on a non-microsoft OS.

they are whining about security lol. i'm sure a company like ms doesn't care if it loses once.

mac os x is just linux with glitches and it looks like crap. lol. if mac could make their own decent os they might have a chance. they need to quit selling computers.