Google says Microsoft's Yahoo buy might hurt Internet

GOOGLE SAYS MICROSOFT'S YAHOO BUY MIGHT HURT INTERNET
[SOURCE: Reuters, AUTHOR: Kirby Chien]
Google, the world's leading Internet search engine, said on Monday it was concerned about the free flow of information on the Internet if Microsoft Corp were to succeed in acquiring Yahoo. "We would be concerned by any kind of acquisition of Yahoo by Microsoft," Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said. "We would hope that anything they did would be consistent with the openness of the Internet, but I doubt it would be." Schmidt pointed to Microsoft's past history and "the things that it has done that have been so difficult for everyone", but he did not elaborate.
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