Remember over a year ago when Microsoft made a $47.5 billion dollar offer to acquire Yahoo!, the second biggest search engine in the United States? Former CEO Jerry Yang rejected the deal which ultimately led up to the company's shareholders forcing Yang to resign. Since the bitter failed attempt, Microsoft has once again opened the door for the newly elected CEO, Carol Bartz. In a interview with The Times Online, Microsoft's Chief Operating Officer, Kevin Turner, said "We've certainly made her aware and the Yahoo! board aware that if they are ever interested in an opportunity to partner with them on search, we'd like to sit down and at least have the conversation. It has to make economic sense to both parties."
Bartz recently told the Sacramento Business Journal that she won't publicly talk about any deal with Microsoft. With all the publicity and scrutiny that the last merger deal had, Bartz's request seems as if she isn't ready for the criticism that will follow if a new deal was crafted. As a CEO, shouldn't she be used to the blogosphere's critics?
Microsoft has continued to invest in it's own search engine, and they are not going to give up anytime soon. Even with this announcement, what will the software giant do with the recently announced rebrand codenamed Kumo?
There is always room for improvement. A search engine that offers more features the people want can overtake Google. I'm annoyed at how many clicks it takes me to do an advance search for more recent pages lately. WoW information gets old fast with all the patches that come out..most of the time I'm looking for something posted within the last month or two... but Google buries these options.
Depend.
As a social fame, Google is unbeatable.
But as a business, even Yahoo can kick ass Google. Google spend a lot of money giving away free services and currently they have little (or not) returns.
For every dollar you invest in Google, then you earn less that if you invest the same money on Yahoo.
Google is a man of straw, it's share price beyond all reality. Their advertising revenue could easily dwindle to almost nothing. (example: commercial TV Magazines and Newspapers!) None of their services are unique, nor do they cost much to implement. Google could vanish as quick as they appeared, and they know it!
That's funny because if you invested one dollar in both Yahoo! and Google one year ago the Yahoo! dollar would now be worth 44¢ but on the Google side you would be sitting happy with almost 70¢, okay maybe not happy, but at least its enough to super size your next combo! Take almost any other timeframe you like and Google's stock has outperformed Yahoo!'s. As far as I know neither company pays a dividend so the stock performance is the bottom line when it comes to investment performance.
If only there was some meaning or actual intent behind their hypocritical motto.
hold on, so there is not going to be anything like Microhoo happening soon?
And that ends the education for today.
Makeup your damn minds already!
Last edited by Calum on 10 Mar 2009 - 10:50
I know a lot of people still rely on Yahoo. You have to remember, Yahoo has been around a lot longer than Google. Some people since it was their first search engine, are perfectly happy to continue using them. Especially those who rely on their Yahoo.com email accounts.
Of course some people still use it!
I'm a big fan of Yahoo since day one. I still use it!
Anyway, email isn't worth anything. The big money is in search engines and social timewasting.
Either make the deal or don't. But quit flip flopping.
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