Kara Swisher: Imagine this:
Google starts buying up a series of promising and innovative Web 2.0 companies that Microsoft is either partnered with or clearly is or should be interested in.
It starts with Digg, moves onto, say, Spot Runner and others (Meebo, FriendFeed, iLike and even Slide?), focused especially in the online ad, messaging, online apps and mobile spaces.
And, just to stir up the pot, why not take a gander at some bigger Internet fish? Facebook, for example. Or even eBay, which is looking more and more like acquisition bait to me.
It could happen. Some of it will. And sooner rather than later, I would guess.
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