Announced last Friday, Microsoft has offered a $45 BILLION dollar bid to buy YAHOO!. On top of this huge news, YAHOO! had announced only a few weeks earlier of 1,000 layoffs within their company. For the SEO industry, this is big. So many questions (legally and ethically) are raised as to whether Microsoft is pushing towards a monopoly in the Search Engine World.

Google certainly isn’t amused. A blog posted today by the Chief Legal Officer made it clear they are not happy by the ‘hostile bid’. Read more here: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/02/yahoo-and-future-of-internet.html

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