The bulls found a home in Google on Friday. The stock price rose nearly $90 a share, on reports of 42% revenue growth in the first-quarter, bringing $28 billion in share-holder wealth to Wall Street. No doubt this Google news was welcomed in the face of staggering losses in the financial industry.

And Rick Pendergraft sees Google continuing it’s search and advertising dominance online even against the possible combination of Yahoo and Microsoft. He says, “Microsoft and Yahoo! would create a virtual monopoly in instant messaging and would put them in a more dominant position in email service and the on-line news arena. But what else would the merger bring to the table?

Legislators are jockeying to voice their opinion on the potential merger. Most of them are concerned about potential unfair advantages for the merged company.

I don’t see it.

As I stated above, the combined entity of Microsoft and Yahoo! would not be dominant anywhere they aren’t already. Google would still be dominant in the search engine and ad revenue areas. I understand the posturing by Google and their CEO, but I for one don’t see the need for concern.”