It would be very bad if MS purchased Google.
As it stands on MSN.com search right now, for any regular search term you have to wade through a page and a half of paid listings to get to any actual search results.
MS would want to make some money off the largest search engine in the world, so I would expect that they would start throwing out the paid listings into the regular results (not the ad-words on the right or the clearly marked top listings in google).
Before you know it, what used to be a great, no-money-needed search engine has become another bought and paid for commercial tool.
What engine will we turn to then?
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