Not actually , Yahoo is a portal , Google is a Search Engine, they do have synergies, but the main issues are anti trust because they will be controlling a big pie of their markets.
No perfect reasons but a number of reasons, Yahoo portals are well visited and attracted as much eyeballs as Google, Yahoo do not only consist of the portal but also Yahoo Finances and other services which attract a big following. Google is trying to get content, through Blogger, Youtube etc, Yahoo can provide them with a lot of content and eyeballs which when aggregated provides a substantial synergies for Google and also the ability to monetize them more effectively.
Even the shareholders of Yahoo and Google might not approve of such decisions. No one wants to create a monolith that cannot be controlled
That I agree, the financials and logic for a merger and acquisition may be there but there are other factors to consider.
lol i dont think yahoo is for sale, yahoo is a bilion $$$ company maby it's sales has gotten to a bad start this year but they wont sell so fast
The Yahoo Publisher network never really competed with AdSense and I'm not sure it will ever come out of beta. However, the myYahoo portal is great though and I'm sure Google would love to get a hold of Flickr. Not sure Mash is going anywhere. It's like Coke and Pepsi though. We need both to balance out the other and each will have its own fanboys hating the other.
More like 1/6. Yahoo is a $30 billion dollar corporation; Google can't afford such a huge and risky secondary.
I don't see this happening anytime soon, if it did happen yahoos stock would shoot up like theres no tommorow! *Edit: Thanks for the negative reps! You will only wish they would aquire them. Keep praying
True, MSN and Yahoo are portals, but look at this definition. portal site: a site that the owner positions as an entrance to other sites on the internet; "a portal typically has search engines and free email and chat rooms etc." Hmmmm. Google has free email, a chat application, and a search engine. Google is not exclusively search. It's great how Google has kept their landing pages ad-free. That is what made them so popular. No bull, fast loading, and easily navigable. The contextual ads in gmail are annoying. Funny at times. Google should buy out Yahoo and MSN and redirect to goolge.com. Better yet, keep the Yahoo and MSN pages online and use the Google algorithm.
why many of people here say google not protal? blogger= blog servise youtube=yahoo video google talk=yahoo messenger .......etc google is portal but they not want to go into this on homepage just on homepage while if you try Igoogle they already like yahoo google just focus on best then go to better they know what people search for they know what is more site traffice on the world they know what people like and they do it they buy youtube blogger orkut and now they want kill weiki and I believe they will think on games site may they will buy miniclip or building there website for games plz stop say google not portal they for me portal and from biggest portal on the world just don’t focus on homepage and look at what they doing
Google is a good search engine and a lot of people are using it but when it comes to free email they rather use yahoo or hotmail.
They do much of what the portals do but each thing is separate and big! If they have to, they will buy it - ie. youtube.