Big Industry News Day

I don’t often choose to opine on here about “the business” but today I saw a bunch of things that grabbed my attention. Of course, first being the MSFT/YHOO possible acquisition. But even more interesting than that was the move downwards by GOOG:http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/cf3a63b6-d050-11dc-9309-0000779fd2ac.html?nclick_check=1I think the funniest thing here is that in addition to the bad timing of announcing a slowdown in their ad sales efforts, they had the bad luck of saying that the day before two competitors merge together to form a more dangerous combination.Probably not a death-blow for GOOG, and definitely not enough to downgrade Air Google to a 737 (they have their own 767 you know), but this will make the industry fun to watch in what will otherwise be a lackluster year. BTW, the best line of the above story is a “sharp slowdown in clicks” – no doubt a result of their changed link areas on their ads in an attempt to fend off “accidental clicks”. It sucks when your business is based on accidental user actions.Anyway, just a rant. Enjoy the super bowl.