> "Bad: the defensive rationale for this acquisition is clear: Get ahead of the competition and cut off their access to the target's product" > "Good: The rati

> "Bad: the defensive rationale for this acquisition is clear: Get ahead of the competition and cut off their access to the target's product" > "Good: The rationale for this acquisition is clear: Integrate the target with Google and improve our products for users" The conversion is very lossy so will likely hamstring Google's business processes, both immediately and by eventual morphing of the vague-wording culture into the bullshit culture. Which it seems would serve the purpose of promoting competition - selectively handicapping companies big enough to worry about antitrust makes room for smaller and nimbler companies.