Ben Gilbert: commitment

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…It was the next month. Right away Microsoft turned around and bought AQuantive for $6 billion. Twice the price, but Microsoft getting the number two player versus the number one player slowed them down. We’re heading right into Microsoft search efforts with Yahoo and then ultimately Bing and getting into the advertising business worth every penny to Google, even for the sole reason of keeping the premier number one player in the display ad space out of Microsoft’s hands. Yep. The one thing I will say here, David, is unlike all those other Google products, maps, Gmail, YouTube, the organizing the world’s information, this is not organizing the world’s information and making it universally accessible. We're running an ad business and we want to expand the ad business, and so we’re going to expand and protect our business interests by buying this. It’s a chess piece on the table that it being in our hands versus other people’s hands is better.…

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