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I saw this in the headlines this morning. It's a pretty interesting risk.

My yahoo sucks enough as it is. If Microsoft buys them, it will be toast.

chump change

This is great news...for Google.

microhoo?

 

yahsoft?

 

yacrohoo?

 

Microyah?

I think its going to put a lot of pressure on Google.

 

I think that aside from Google's marketshare and near-synonymy with Internet search, their technology development teams are just so good and so innovative that Micro-Yahoo still can't compete. All of the third-party mashup applications being built from Google technology is something that the insular-thinking Microsoft will just not be able to compete with imo.

 

Edit to add: And I'm not just saying that to kiss up to Google because their VP of Engineering is my old college dorm and apartment mate. On the other hand. . . Jeff, if you see this you know I'm always available if you want me to head up development of Google Beer for you.

 

Edited February 2, 200818 yr by FlaSoxxJim

Microsoft could give two s***s about search.

 

Microsoft wants Yahoo's portal sites which are THE most visited on the web, so its about ad revenue and customer base. It's like buying the Superbowl of the Internet is how it was explained.

Microsoft could give two s***s about search.

 

Microsoft wants Yahoo's portal sites which are THE most visited on the web, so its about ad revenue and customer base. It's like buying the Superbowl of the Internet is how it was explained.

 

The thing is, you can't separate search and advertising anymore. Yahoo's portals do get more hits than anything else on the web, but such a huge chunk of Google's ad revenue doesn't come from portal hits at all but from search-based ad matches. Combine that with the money they rake in from the hundreds of thousands of sites with Adsense deployed on it (contrast that with yahoo's Publisher Network which has been in beta since 2005) and I'm hard-pressed to believe Google is lacking in ad revenue and customer base.

Think about this. Your Yahoo! account now suddenly offers you the ability to use MS Word online. And since it interfaces with your MS Office so well, why bother using Google Docs?

Think about this. Your Yahoo! account now suddenly offers you the ability to use MS Word online. And since it interfaces with your MS Office so well, why bother using Google Docs?

 

Microsoft has never been serious about disaggragating/decentralizing productivity apps or particular chunks of functionality of them, and I don't see them suddenly getting it now. At least in the short term.

Microsoft has never been serious about disaggragating/decentralizing productivity apps or particular chunks of functionality of them, and I don't see them suddenly getting it now. At least in the short term.

And even when they do try such things, usually they don't work very well

Newscorp may also be trying to put together a bid for Yahoo.

Newscorp may also be trying to put together a bid for Yahoo.

 

 

I've got like 20 bucks in my wallet...I'm thinking about making a bid too.

I've got like 20 bucks in my wallet...I'm thinking about making a bid too.

If we pooled all our money here, we might just get $100,000 to buy yahoo.

1/450000th should be enough for a down payment, right?

If we pooled all our money here, we might just get $100,000 to buy yahoo.

1/450000th should be enough for a down payment, right?

About a year ago, if you were buying real estate, the answer would have been yes.

I've got like 20 bucks in my wallet...I'm thinking about making a bid too.

 

I am sure that .67 shares will get you far...

MSN.com is a dog.

 

I expect it to be "yahoo.com powered by microsoft ®"

I've got like 20 bucks in my wallet...I'm thinking about making a bid too.

 

 

I don't know about Yahoo, but I know a couple of gals that will take 20 bucks to show you their hoohoo.

I don't know about Yahoo, but I know a couple of gals that will take 20 bucks to show you their hoohoo.

 

/you don't want to see those ho-ho's hoohoos.

I'd give someone my yahoo for about an hour for $20

I don't know about Yahoo, but I know a couple of gals that will take 20 bucks to show you their hoohoo.

 

But let's leave Tex out of this...

REEEE-JECTED!!!

But let's leave Tex out of this...

 

He didn't say 215 pesos*

 

Based on today's exchange rate of 10.758 pesos to US$1