More Media Consolidation

Microsoft has bid $44.6 billion dollars in an effort to buy out Yahoo. Google is freaking out. As Peter Whoriskey of The Washington Post points out in his article from February 4, 2008 (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/03/AR2008020302675.html), Google is calling Microsoft a monopoly (which it is) that is trying to stifle the competition.