Google probably should worry...

Of course Google is just as heavy handed as Microsoft when it comes to smacking down people, especially bloggers with the way they have destroyed page ranks for many out of spite to punish people who aren't using the only approved way to sell links through Google but....

SAN FRANCISCO — In a preview of what could shape up to be a fierce antitrust fight over Microsoft’s $45 billion offer for Yahoo, Google’s chief legal officer on Sunday made clear that the search giant would not sit on the sidelines, questioning whether Microsoft would “now attempt to exert the same sort of inappropriate and illegal influence over the Internet that it did with the PC.”

Writing on the official Google (GOOG) blog, David Drummond, the company’s senior vice president for corporate development and chief legal officer, argued that a combined Microsoft (MSFT) and Yahoo (YHOO) “raises troubling questions” and would pose significant competitiveness issues. “Could the acquisition of Yahoo allow Microsoft — despite its legacy of serious legal and regulatory offenses — to extend unfair practices from browsers and operating systems to the Internet?” he wrote.