Should Microsoft Buy Yahoo!

Discussion in 'Bing' started by savantcreative, Feb 20, 2008.

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    What do you all think about MS trying to buy Yahoo? I am a bit ambivalent but there really isn't enough competition in the search engine space and MS has the $$$$$$$$$$$$
     
    savantcreative, Feb 20, 2008 IP
  2. Zubair1

    Zubair1 Peon

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    Microsoft is a dominating force :D i will miss Yahoo! for sure, has been my favorite i just hope that Microsoft doesn't ruin the service they are currently providing :(
     
    Zubair1, Feb 20, 2008 IP
  3. Julius

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    #3
    wow Microsoft wants to buy Yahoo?
    Why would they do it? They already have a search engine...
     
    Julius, Feb 20, 2008 IP
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    Chuchuzoo Banned

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    Microsoft should buy yahoo that way there will be some real competition.
     
    Chuchuzoo, Feb 20, 2008 IP
  5. COLDROCK

    COLDROCK Banned

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    MS should & will buy out Yahoo, a year from now we will see the combined site.
     
    COLDROCK, Feb 21, 2008 IP
  6. theTurk

    theTurk Active Member

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    #6
    nooo the internet is becoming dominated by google and ms
     
    theTurk, Feb 21, 2008 IP
  7. ardley216

    ardley216 Peon

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    well google needs competition and yahoo needs saving from itself! but once that happens there'll only be 2 competators... which is.. not much!
     
    ardley216, Feb 21, 2008 IP
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    i think the real competition will be more hot if only there 2 participant

     
    armen, Feb 21, 2008 IP
  9. gamesms

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    i think if MS bought yahoo and the price is like 44 billion $ right?

    ok but i am sure that Google will be the 1st because google was a part of yahoo before like 5 years
    and for many reasons...
    i prefer google.
     
    gamesms, Feb 21, 2008 IP
  10. Dreads

    Dreads Well-Known Member

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    Microsoft should do the following
    - buy yahoo
    then make offers for ebay , veoh (pretty popular site), aol (if they get aim.. they have basicly control of instant messaging) then move on into the phone world by buying a company..
    invest in some movies... ect..
    i mean they can grow pretty fast only if they got to the mp3 era faster then the ipod.
     
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  11. Sohan

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    In my honest opinion, MS is Yahoo's only life line.

    Aol and Disney won't help Yahoo at all. Only thing that merger will help is providing us some cheap laughs.
     
    Sohan, Feb 21, 2008 IP
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    i personally think that MS should by Yahoo
     
    elgourmet, Feb 21, 2008 IP
  13. ETS

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    Yahoo declined the offer by MSN. But I did hear that if MSN comes back with a better offer then Yahoo might accept. I think MSN just wanted to see where everyone was standing. A little test
     
    ETS, Feb 21, 2008 IP
  14. usasportstraining

    usasportstraining Notable Member

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    I'd rather see someone innovative buy Yahoo and give Google a challenge.

    Microsoft stopped being particularly innovative after DOS went out of favor.
     
    usasportstraining, Feb 21, 2008 IP
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    google part of yahoo? lol u'r joking me...

    yahoo used google's search for a while but google IS NOT AND NEVER WAS part of yahoo
     
    sairos, Feb 21, 2008 IP
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    #16
    Microsoft must acquire Yahoo to make healthily competition in search industry. At present Google is ruling the search as well online advertising market. With the merge there will be good competition and will benefit the online advertisers.
     
    SubmitShop, Feb 21, 2008 IP
  17. savantcreative

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    I think you are right
     
    savantcreative, Feb 21, 2008 IP
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    i prefer google alot more than yahoo, and i think the take over will make google even better, google will benefit from the competition. giving better services and they could grow even bigger! and us, web users, need the competition or google MAY abuse having control over the internet
     
    ardley216, Feb 22, 2008 IP
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    Yahoo is not just a search engine, and it's not just search engines where Google is dominating ... its also advertising. And there we could all do with serious competition ... so maybe it'll be a good thing ... YPN would finally go international ... I hope.
     
    qazu, Feb 22, 2008 IP
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    #20
    i think that's a good thing if microsoft buys yahoo, because if microsoft doesn't buy it , google will buy it and then they will control all the web
     
    MasterG12, Feb 22, 2008 IP