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What I have just read on Google’s official blog surprises me, Google is a great business supplier to us and partner so I really like most of the things they do.

But I thought is was really inappropriate for them to comment on the Microsoft bid for Yahoo! in the way they have just done.

Essentially despite best intentions in the UK at least in mind share and marketplace reality Google has a virtual monopoly in search. So it grates on me for them to object to one company buying another.

If they believe the best ideas win through and in the free market then surely a more credible competitor in the search business would be a healthy thing and deliver greater innovation.

To me they are sounding more like the monopolist and a scared one as well. I mean what kind of a question is this:

“Could a combination of the two take advantage of a PC software monopoly to unfairly limit the ability of consumers to freely access competitors’ email, IM, and web-based services?”

The answer is no David they couldn’t. It’s pretty simple what would happen if internet explorer stopped working with Google it’s your job to fix your web site to work with internet explorer and if it broke your site it would break most of the internet too!

Please don’t pretend you are that bothered about IM why does it matter? If windows stopped working with my email I would move from windows. There are credible competitors like Ubuntu now and Apple is doing much better as well so I feel like Microsoft is not in the position it once was.

Consumers will decide what they want and there is pretty much nothing I can see Microsoft doing that would affect Google’s services or other competitors. I think the whole post comes across as bleating and ridiculous. If Google is so upset why doesn’t it buy Yahoo!? In my view that would be a lot worse for competition and all that will happen if MSFT buys YHOO will be that Google will have to work harder to innovate and stay ahead.