Is Google Becoming Like Microsoft?

Google seems to be buying everything in its path today. Will we be stuck in the future with only options to go with a Google brand? Youtube for Video. Blogger for Blogs? and so on. Yes there are a lot of other options for the two I just mentioned but since Google Search is so dominant I can only imagine these google products will get priority. Here is a interesting video of Google apparently in the final stages of buying Digg.com