Several reports have surfaced today indicating that a Microsoft and Yahoo! deal is "imminent".24/7 Wall Street is reporting that under the terms of the agreement, Yahoo! will be paid $3 billion upfront and will get 110% of the revenue that its searches provide after traffic acquisition costs in each of the first two years. In the third year, that figure would go to 90%.
Top executives at Microsoft–including SVP of the Online Audience Business Group Yusuf Mehdi and others have reportedly flown to Silicon Valley to iron out the final details of the deal. It's expected that Microsoft will pay Yahoo cash upfront to take over its search advertising business.
Microsoft has been in talks with Yahoo for nearly 2 years, during which time Microsoft has evaluated a takeover bid, seen Yahoo reply to it's ultimatums and nearly miss out on a deal when Yahoo attempted to partner with Google. The Yahoo-Google partnership failed due to regulatory concerns.
According to figures from ComScore, in June Google held 65% of the search market in the US, with Yahoo at 19.6% and Microsoft on only 8.4%. If the Microsoft Yahoo deal takes place then this will bring Microsoft up to nearly 30% market share in the US, tripling its current current share.
omg so true
i wish youtube would go silverlight but i think that is very unlikely
It's been going on for a long time...
I wonder if MS is going to kill off Yahoo Search and force users to go to Bing?
Dayum, I wish I had thought of Google and Yahoo, I would be mega rich.
Last edited by Calum on 17 Jul 2009 - 10:46
Like AOL but for the internet?? lol
I'm guessing you made a genuine mistake there so I'll give you the benefit of the doubt...
I'm guessing you made a genuine mistake there so I'll give you the benefit of the doubt...
I'm pretty sure he meant for the online masses not a crappy paid subscription service, and AOL for the most part was an ISP w/their own software
MS could save them and increase their share if done right. I wonder how it will affect Yahoo partners like BT?
This does seem strange, Microsoft just released Bing, and it seems to be doing ok. What will they do, maintain two engines??? move Bing to Yahoo?? Slowely rebrand yahoo search to bing???
If you read the nytimes article, yahoo actually has a lot of number 1s, number 1 sports site, finance site, news site, etc....
Work with the company, get foot in door, buy them out, or simply learn what you can about the business - then run their own more efficiently. This isn't anything new or unexpected. The word in the market was circling this blending.
http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/8711/go...d2009071712.png
Maybe the idea is to redirect Yahoo searches to Bing, as the Yahoo search is obviously not doing too well? Not that I'm sure how Yahoo users will react to that. Will they prefer Google over Bing? In that case, that could lose them at an even higher pace.
http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/8711/go...d2009071712.png
Maybe the idea is to redirect Yahoo searches to Bing, as the Yahoo search is obviously not doing too well? Not that I'm sure how Yahoo users will react to that. Will they prefer Google over Bing? In that case, that could lose them at an even higher pace.
Except that Bing *already* has supplanted Yahoo in the search wars (per an earlier news item here at Neowin).
There's also the possibility of a Yahoo-branded version of the Bing engine (or even Yahoo-branded-but-Bing-powered search-engine appliances for intranets and extranets, similar to Google's own search-engine-appliances for intranets/extranets).
This is more a case of Yahoo finally reading the writing on the wall and cashing out while they can.
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Ummm... Not quite.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...9071501778.html
Please say you don't just read Neowin news that supports your opinions, and disregard ones that don't.
BUT... This wasn't about Bing's market share -- I was really talking of Yahoo's and how they were doing. Not comparing search engines.
There are many cool services in Yahoo, try their gaming services for instance. The best chess portal around the web.
One thing that bothers me about Hotmail, is they close your account unless you keep checking in on it. Yahoo does not. That makes Yahoo a better throwaway account for me. It is always available when I need it, without having to re-activate it. I don't lose any old emails (should I ever need to go back to one, that is).
My pick: Yahoo over Hotmail.
lol. What does your Yahoo! account have anything to do with Yahoo! search?
Yahoo evolves around their search engine. If Microsoft takes over you can bet that a lot will change for the other services. If it does I'll just leave. Last thing I want is to be receiving ads for the latest "Windows 7 Ultra Cool Version Yahoo Limited Edition" on my mailbox...
Yahoo! don't have a browser, but Microsoft do, so wouldn't Microsoft be more interested in NOT improving it, and making a really good one for IE? Unless they tie advertising into it. And, as far as I know, Microsoft are only buying Yahoo! search, not all of Yahoo!, so I'm pretty sure delicious will still be in Yahoo!'s control.
Didn't they relaunch it?
http://new.music.yahoo.com/launchcast/
$44.6 billion, but that was for all of Yahoo!, not just their search...
I (vaguely) remember the 44 billion figure, but I thought that was their asking price?
And without their search, what is Yahoo really worth?
And without their search, what is Yahoo really worth?
Agreed. Yahoo has shut down some of their services since they were struggling so much. I don't know what more they have worth acquiring other than their search... Maybe Microsoft came to that realization as well?
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