"Every time you use Google, you're using a machine running the Linux kernel."

--Chris DiBona, Google

Summary: Google is rumoured to be after an acquisition of Akamai, whose services Microsoft uses heavily

SOME respectable sources write about the rumour that Google might buy Akamai, which is a GNU/Linux-based CDN company (Microsoft is afraid of those but relies on them too). To give the gist of the situation:

Akamai, which deals in content delivery networks, is the organization that might be in Google's good graces. Some investors have accepted the idea to the point that they've sent Akamai's stock up 3.38 percent so far today.

Microsoft already uses the services of Akamai. It would hate to serve Web content via Google, especially now that its failing 'Google killer' continues to slide.

Due out tomorrow - prior to the release of quarterly earnings results from Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft - the report also says that's Google share of search advertisers has reached a near all-time high of 81.2 per cent. All this, and we're just 18 weeks away from Bing's much-hyped debut.

Microsoft is believed to have already spent $100,000,000 just on advertising this entry. It was in vain, apparently. ⬆

“It’s not the first entry for Microsoft, They do this about once a year.”

--Google CEO, regarding Bing