The newest buzz in the internet industry is about the interest of MSN to buy or merge with Yahoo. This move is being negotiated by the two companies to take on Google and dethrone it from being the number one search engine. This is a clear sign that the two companies, Yahoo and MSN, are threatened, alarmed by the fact that Google has been rapidly gaining market shares in the internet through its recent acquisitions of a number of websites. If Microsoft decides to buy Yahoo, it would be the largest acquisition the company has ever undertaken.

Is this a desperate move by the two companies? But the bigger question is, is it enough to take down Google from being the leader in web search?