Microsoft and Google .. Partners? Rivals?
Check out this NY Times article: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/31/technology/31net.html?ex=1068181200&en=9611591c74179e13&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE
some interesting words in there.. "partnership", "merger", "takeover", and of course "no comment" ;)
-Nino