Could Microsoft Buy Google?
Ignoring for a second the unimpressive portmanteau possibilities available for a merger name — Is it conceivable? is it legal? Doesn’t have to be today, but within three years?
First barrier - Larry Page and Sergey Brin control >50% of the voting share of Alphabet, Google's parent company. Without their support for a buy-out, the "is it legal?", "could Microsoft afford it?", etc. questions do not even matter.