Wednesday, March 03, 2010

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is a Crybaby

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, according to this article, is crying to the government for more regulatory oversight over one of its competitors, Google.

Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer intends to keep the regulatory heat on Google as his company strives to lessen its rival’s dominance of Internet search.

In an appearance Tuesday at a search engine conference, Ballmer said Microsoft believes Google Inc. has done things to gain an unfair advantage in the Internet’s lucrative search advertising market. He didn’t specify the alleged misconduct.

How unfair of Google to be so successful and to have such a dominant search engine capability enabling Google to rake in millions of advertising dollars, so naturally Microsoft CEO Ballmer wants the government to strong arm some of the market profitability into Microsoft’s pockets, with the support of other jealous search engine companies.

The article also informs us that Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz is against government intervention in the search engine advertising market profitability.

“I am actually not interested in government intervention in anything,” Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz told reporters during a Tuesday lunch to celebrate the company’s 15th anniversary. “I think for the most part markets work. I don’t wish antitrust on anyone.”

Which could make one think that Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz is a principled individual, but, alas, that is not the case at all as is evidenced by this sentence from the article.

Yahoo also lobbied regulators to oppose the agreement that would give Google the electronic rights to millions of hard-to-find books.

One of the last quotes from Ballmer in the article is the following.

“There is an advantage to having the power of two, as opposed to the power of one,” Ballmer told the crowd at the Search Marketing Expo.

Yeah, and the advantage of the power of two is that it would allow Microsoft to gang up on Google, since the one to one battle for success in maximizing search engine advertising revenue is being sorely lost by Microsoft.

Posted by John Venlet on 03/03 at 02:22 PM
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