I love Google . I love Google so much that I have the IE toolbar , and the toolbar for the start bar (I guess Google is calling it the Deskbar ). I use Google News as a poor man's Factiva and Nexis , and I use Google as a poor man's Lexis . On that note, I wonder what the Google strategy is right now. Yesterday, in Dan Gillmor's blog, Dan posted Bill Gates unequiovacle denial of any Microsoft acquisition offer to Google, which is, oh, about a 180 degree difference from the New York Times story that has some sources talk about how Google was approached by MSFT about an acquisition. Gillmor's blog column also ran in the paper , but without the thought provoking comments. When the NYT story came out, I called up a few of my friends / PR colleagues and got their opinion of the article - was this a Google PR move to bolster the IPO and the $15B valuation? Was this a VC PR move, to get their money out of the company? We came down that it was a PR stunt, that ...