I criticized that report you refer to in your comment that appeared a while back on TechCrunch, because it was incorrect. As TechCrunch asserted, Google and Microsoft were not in some elaborate bidding war for the company at an incredible price and about to be sold. I think they tried to get the story right and their sources were wrong and Digg CEO Jay Adelson himself said it was untrue.

Just because someone says a company is in play, even if it might be interested in selling, and then gets all the details and circumstances and facts wrong at the time, does not make the report correct in the first place.

And, even when I criticized the story, I did note either Google or MSFT were good acquirer candidates for Digg, and have said that several times in posts about it and several other Web companies. But that was clearly written as opinion and not based on reporting.

I have been following the story since as I did think Digg was a likely acquisition candidate at some point in its life and via good sources, and now I believe the talks with Google to be genuine and more serious.

Microsoft is like a very large python snake. Yahoo is like a Sears Kenmore deluxe washer dryer combo.

The companies you name are like that washer-dryer taken apart down to the major component level.

The issue isn’t the size of the things swallowed, its what they are made of. In the case of the Kenmore, mostly steel. In the case of Yahoo and those smaller companies, mostly Unix.

Either way, MS (the python) will choke if not die.

This has been Mac Beach, reporting from the museum of bad analogies.

It will be and soon.