Microsoft Buying Yahoo?
2 February, 2008, 1:40 pm
This can’t be a good thing. From my experience when Microsoft touches something good they tend to mess it up. But the Yahoo stockholders might be glad to hear about the 44 billion they have been offered. Frankly, if it were up to me, I would take the money and walk.
What will the implications of this be for search traffic? My guess is it will eventually lead to a larger market share for Google. Google has always been the leader with yahoo running second and MSN third. If Microsoft keeps their own algorithm, applying it to yahoo searches, it will be devastating, but if they adopt yahoo’s search techniques it could be good for both MSN and Yahoo.
What will it be? My thoughts are because of the corporate attitude of arrogance at MSN, they will shoot themselves in the foot. Any thoughts on what this could mean for the future? Anyone think they will actually go through with the deal?
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