Google warns on Yahoo-Microsoft

Google's top lawyer has penned a letter outlining a number of concerns it sees if Microsoft's bid for Yahoo goes through.

In the letter, "Yahoo and the future of the Internet," Google chief legal officer David Drummond says that Microsoft's offer "raises troubling questions" given the company's monopolistic past.

"This is about more than simply a financial transaction, one company taking over another," Drummond said. "It's about preserving the underlying principles of the Internet: openness and innovation.

Drummond warns that Microsoft could attempt the same things it did in in the PC market, ultimately stifling new ideas. It also says a combined Microsoft-Yahoo would have an "overwhelming share" in instant messaging and Web mail.

"Policymakers around the world need to ask these questions--and consumers deserve satisfying answers," Drummond wrote.

Google and Microsoft frequently trade complaints on how the other is a monopoly and shouldn't be able to do whatever the other wants to do.

Genghis Khan

Genghis Khan(IPA: [ʧiŋgɪs χaːŋ]) (Mongolian: Чингис Хаан, Chingis Khaan, traditional script: , Činggis Qaɣan), ca. 1162[1]–August 18[citation needed], 1227), born Temüjin, was the founder, Khan (ruler) and posthumously declared Khagan (emperor[2]) of the Mongol Empire, the largest contiguous empire in history.

Chinggis Khan

Mongolia XIII century – numerous clans of Mongolian tribes struggle cruelly with each other. In such violent period Temujin, the future Great Khan Chinggis, was born. When Temujin was twelve years old, his father Yesugei, the chief of the Kiyat subclan of the Borjigin Mongols, is killed by hateful Tatars. Temujin is to take place to his father. However the Kiyat rejects the boy as their leader. Moreover, Temujin and his immediate family are abandoned and apparently left to die in a vast desert. At that time young Temujin even didn't presume that God predicted to him only one destiny: die or fight to survive.