And yet another Google aquisition... - UK Web Hosting | Dedicated Server Windows and Linux VPS Forum

**flesso** · #1 (**permalink**) 01-06-2007, 20:29

Dear God, is there any stopping Google? Anyways, Google have now aquired FeedBurner, more at http://mashable.com/2007/06/01/feedburner/.

**Ben** · #2 (**permalink**) 01-06-2007, 20:32

I think its great that Google is buying these types of companies. It goes to show that Google wants to improve their services

. Hey, whats next? They buy Yahoo! and MSN? (I bet they do actually want to do that

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**flesso** · #3 (**permalink**) 01-06-2007, 20:35

I think if anyone is going to get Yahoo!, it would be Microsoft considering the rumours which have been travelling around for the past few month. Microsoft will never sell MSN/Windows Live because of the trademarks in place there, and of the utmost confusion that it would cause. How do we know, we may be sitting here in a years time using GoogleSoft?

**Ben** · #4 (**permalink**) 01-06-2007, 21:22

Actually, GoogleSoft sounds so awesome. It would be great to see Google buying both Yahoo! and MSN because I wonder what change they'd do to both companies?

**flesso** · #5 (**permalink**) 01-06-2007, 21:25

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ben

Actually, GoogleSoft sounds so awesome. It would be great to see Google buying both Yahoo! and MSN because I wonder what change they'd do to both companies?

Any Microsoft website hostings will never be bought, Microsoft is way too big to let MSN go. Some of the MSN stuff is the result of aquisitions anyway, e.g. hotmail, Microsoft bought that around 10 years ago now.

I was thinking more along the lines of everything ending up under Microsoft by doing the following:

Yahoo Buys Bebo > Microsoft Buys Yahoo

Google Buys NewsCorp (maybe not possible, but what the hell) > Microsoft Buys Google

**paul** · #6 (**permalink**) 02-06-2007, 05:03

I heard this was rumor, anyway if google will buy feedburner more like google will try to serve their own ads into the RSS stream.

**flesso** · #7 (**permalink**) 02-06-2007, 06:59

Quote:

Originally Posted by paul

I heard this was rumor, anyway if google will buy feedburner more like google will try to serve their own ads into the RSS stream.

It's not a rumour, it's official. It was on FeedBurner's homepage.

**Ben** · #8 (**permalink**) 02-06-2007, 07:37

Actually Paul, Flesso is correct. See this link for more info: http://www.feedburner.com/google

**Hallief3** · #9 (**permalink**) 02-06-2007, 08:58

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Originally Posted by Ben

Actually Paul, Flesso is correct.

lol, sounded a bit shocked there Ben

**paul** · #10 (**permalink**) 02-06-2007, 10:22

Ah! actually it was published earlier in many website hostings saying it a rumor ( you can check in google) , but I checked the feedburner website hosting, that now confirm this news that "Google has acquired FeedBurner".

**DPS Computing** · #11 (**permalink**) 02-06-2007, 21:13

God, Google won't take over Microsoft at this rate - they will be the next Microsoft

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