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I’d like to say it was inevitable, but I honestly wasn’t sure if it would happen. I think it was an excellent move. And at only $100 mil! I would’ve snatched it up if Donald Trump owed me a (huge) favor. Can you think of an easier way to absorb a market?

Google is already (probably) the biggest advertiser in the blogging community; now they can tackle RSS feeds as well. I think they’re making some great moves towards owning a very young, but very quickly growing market. Who else has their hands in blogging like Google? Microsoft (and Ask.com - hah) are still trying to catch up in the search market. There’s a reason Google is at the top.

This year has been pretty crazy so far. It’ll be exciting to see what happens next. All this Microsoft buying Yahoo patootie has everyone stirred up. I’ll go ahead and put in my two-cents: It’ll never happen (well, not this year). Yahoo and Microsoft are competitors, the relationship is beyond acquisition. It would screw up the dynamic of the internet world we’ve all grown to know and love. I may end up being horribly wrong (shocking, eh?), but I won’t be too upset. Predicting the business world of Web 2.0 is like trying to predict which dog will win the next Kentucky Derby.