Can Microsoft Break Google's Monopoly buy Merging with Yahoo for $44.6 billion?

This is too shocking a news for me. Microsoft Corp has made an unsolicited offer to buy Yahoo Inc for $44.6 billion in cash and stock, seeking to join forces against Google Inc in what would be the biggest Internet deal since the Time Warner-AOL merger. And still what they are getting is, 16 percent share of worldwide web search market.

In its boldest-ever acquisition move, Microsoft said on Friday it offered $31 per share for Yahoo, or a 62 percent premium over the Internet media company's closing stock price on Nasdaq Thursday. Yahoo, whose shares jumped to $30.75 in premarket trading, said it would evaluate the bid

Though it's a good strategy, not good for internet, and the power will be centred with two big shots, Microsoft and Google. And you are seeing some of the effects from Google already, they being the monopoly in Internet world.

PR Drop of this blog due to moving to domain name?

I am not sure what's the reason but this blog's PR is dropped from PR3 to PR1. I doubt if changing over to a domain name from http://lifeiscolorful.blogspot.com to http://www.findthecasino.net affected this. Because the later domain name was lying around for some time in my bucket of domain names, and I thought I shall use it for this blog to make it hosted on a domain name.

Though it helped me a lot to get better reviews as many of the advertisers don't like to have reviews done by blogspot hosted blogs, I am little bit sad about the domain drop. The only reason behind adding this domain this blog was it's PR, which was PR3 before the recent google page rank update.

Now, I have one more task in my task list, getting up the PR of this domain back to PR3 and then PR5 :). Lot of work in hand, see you guys!