Microsoft is bidding 40 billion dollars to grab a share of Yahoo, there going to make more people to search on Yahoo then on Google.
I'd really like to see it happen. Google has the best technology which is why they're #1. People don't really care who owns the company. You do have to admit, 40 Billion Dollars is A LOT of money.
May this be the last thread! Google will still be the #1 search engine. THATS NOT WHY IT WAS A BUYOUT!
Look yahoo is numer 1 on Alexa, dont get me wrong i love Google, but something can go wrong if Microsoft interferes.
Yep, Google is unbeatable in searchengine. Google's team is motivated and happy to try new things by being always perfectionists. Only if there were people like in google (not in profession) working for NASA. Our space technology would be far more advanced. Planet 581c needs discovering !
after this purchase, microsoft's cash will be really down (ms really had a lot of cash a few years ago)
Yes, something will go wrong. Yahoo will be worse, this is what I fear. Microsoft-Yahoo won't beat Google, in fact I think Google should be happy with Microsoft's policy. In search engine world, MSN are the worst. It's extremely easy to compete in MSN SERPs. Who knows Yahoo will be as poor as Live/MSN search engine if Microsoft buy Yahoo?
I heard about it... from some other search engine blog (and comfirmed by dozens of newspapers around...). Sure enough, Microsof IS offering Yahoo a nice and juicy $44.6 billion. Microsoft even made a press release about it: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/feb08/02-01CorpNewsPR.mspx
how will they make people search more on yahoo then google? I will use google, whether MS buy yahoo, or yahoo buy MS