This is dumb. The entire post would have read much better had he written “I will not link to a competitor”, rather than branding Google guilty on the basis of vague suspicions against too-successful companies. I don’t know what Google may or may not do in the future, but ’til now every single thing they have done — from News to Froogle — has been based on their core: Search. Why should I judge the blogger acquisition to be any different pre-facto? (More to the point, it’s not a very big stretch from offering posting on Usenet to offering blogging services).