Here’s something that made me go Hmmm? Yesterday, David Drummond, the Chief Legal Officer of Google (GOOG), posted what appears to be their official reaction to Microsoft’s (MSFT) bid for Yahoo! (YHOO): “Yahoo! and the future of the Internet“.
The reaction from the blogosphere has largely been WTF?
- Pot calling the kettle black methinks!“
- “Seems a tad ironic…“
- “Fear mongering?“
- “Google is actually scared of Microhoo…“
- “This post from Google is a bit disappointing…“
- “Does anyone else see this as Google playing tit-for-tat?“
- “Quite frankly, this sounds quite like a case of tit-for-tat…“
Dave of PassingNotes.com even posted an amusing interpretation of Drummond’s piece, “Dr MicroHoo, or how I stopped worrying and learned to love the bomb“.
Drummond’s response struck me as surprisingly tinged with fear, hypocrisy, and spite. That probably wasn’t his intention, but it’s not hard to take it that way. To be fair, he does raise up valid points. And ironically, those very points have been raised against Google too. So what was Drummond trying to say with this post? I dunno, maybe he really was trying to play tit-for-tat with Microsoft?
I think GOOG knew exactly what they were doing with this memo. There’s a reason for it, one that will play out in the days to come…
I’m still waiting to see their reason… was it because they wanted to give voice mail to the homeless? ;-)
Hahaha!! I wonder if lots of girls are going to sign up for the service and give out that number in bars, instead of their own number…
Hehe. That would be funny. Lots of girls give out email addresses and IM chat IDs now too.