Google warns that Microsoft bid to buy Yahoo could damage Internet development

I guess it was only a matter of time: before Microsoft made a real effort to buy Yahoo, and once it did before Google started stamping feet and shouting that it just isn’t fair. Considering that Google has something like 80% of the search market as far as the UK is concerned at least, compared with around 10% combined for Microsoft and Yahoo, it does rather stick in my craw when it starts complaining about ‘unacceptably dominant positioning’ to be honest. Yet that is exactly what Google is doing, warning anyone within earshot that if Microsoft buys Yahoo then it will create a dominating email and instant messaging monster which could jeopardise future development of the open standards Internet.