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Microsoft and Yahoo alliance

Google weighs in against Microsoft

By Richard Waters in San Francisco and Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson in London

Published: February 3 2008 19:54 | Last updated: February 4 2008 03:17

Google raised a red flag over Microsoft’s unsolicited takeover offer for Yahoo, on Sunday arguing it could open the way for the software developer to extend its PC monopoly to the internet.

The intervention is the latest example of the growing enmity between the two companies and echoes Microsoft’s denunciation of Google’s proposed acquisition of online advertising company DoubleClick.

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