Looks like Google and IBM are evenly matched in terms of market cap so a buy out is unlikely http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=IBM+GOOG+market+cap http://www

Looks like Google and IBM are evenly matched in terms of market cap so a buy out is unlikely http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=IBM+GOOG+market+cap http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=IBM+GOOG+market+cap QA technology is very different than search because the former makes strong assumptions about quality of the underlying data. Google's search is much better at filtering out and dealing with low quality content (e.g. blogs) and spam.