In a bid to halt Google’s growing dominance online, Microsoft has offered to buy struggling Internet giant Yahoo for $44.6 billion, an acquisition that would unite the world’s most influential software company with the Web’s most-trafficked site. The deal — if successful — could also change the way many consumers and businesses use the Internet. The biggest change, though, would be in the Internet search business. Suddenly, Microsoft would become a more formidable player in an area where it has traditionally struggled and Yahoo would have the major influx of cash needed to battle Google. Combined, this could be a powerful enemy for Google.

 Let me first say - I have been begging for this for several years. Googlenow has about 55% of the search market, way too much for any one company. They control way the income of many US based companies, as well as people such as myself and most of you reading this. Google needs a good challenger to keep it from being evil.

I’ll watch this one very closely. This could be an epic battle in the making here folks, and I hope webmasters and American business comes out on top.

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