Man, after reading the piece below you might be inclined to believe that Google is a threat to all that is independent on the Internet. Is this problem? Perhaps instead, people are beginning to over react a tad?

The Internet business looks a bit like Europe before WWI. It’s a tense landscape rife with rumor, arms races, border skirmishes, secret pacts, and colossal ambition.

A spate of recent headlines tells the story. eBay seeks a common front with Microsoft and Amazon against Google. Amazon drops Google technology from the Alexa search engine. Microsoft debates absorbing Yahoo. Google complains that Microsoft’s new browser is anticompetitive. MSN debuts its adCenter. On Monday, Yahoo unveiled an interactive search advertising engine (see Yahoo Rebuilds Ad Engine).

If there is a common theme, it’s that Google is a threat and it needs to be contained.

On Wednesday, when Google hosts its annual media day in San Francisco, the company will have scores of technology and business reporters ready to broadcast whatever new weapons it may train on its gathering competitors. Google is not going to easily relinquish its share of an Internet advertising market that reached $12.5 billion in 2005…. Source: Red Herring