Bing BUY Yahoo!!

this is really going to impact google!

 

I wonder if this will effect Adsense revenues; the move is supposed to be "good" for the advertisers apart from anything. Microsoft/Yahoo just want to gain search market share to offer the advertisers something. If it's better rates then...

 

they are going to cooperate as i understand it, microsoft is not buying yahoo.

 

Ya right Bing doesn't have that kind of $$$

 

Nope, Bill Gates is really up against it in todays economic climate..

 

Yea YHOO share holders are getting HAMMERED. I was really close to short this thing before earnings day but I had my money in other stocks that did better... Yahoo is a dead company, microsoft is getting a steal they don't WANT the whole company of yahoo... Yahoo in the long future will die and Microsoft and Google will go against each other.

 

They already have taken ~12% of the pie. And now they buy Yahoo search? It looks scary too google, I think. Anyway, it's only better for users.

 

what the advantage for use as user?

 

Read the whole info at Yahoo & Microsoft joint website and Yahoo! CEO Carol Bartz’s blog post.

 

I can't help but think this is the beginning of the end for Yahoo. Whose got the bigger bucks overall? Who stands a better chance at growing market share for the search engine market? Why, if it were Yahoo they'd have done it already. Look at what Bing has done already.

 

i really dont like bing

 

So, this agreement means Yahoo Search is now a Meta search engine?

 

Google will always be my number 1 choice no matter what

 

I would love to be Yahoo right now. 88% cut of revenue with no operating expenses for running search for 5 years! Yahoo made out like a bandit. All the analyst are caught up on not having a up front payment. That just shows you how short sighted the marketplace is. I would love to have that big of a chunk of revenue with someone else footing the bill.

 

Still they can't beat google, that easy.
But nice efforts

 

Yes the Big G is still the No1 search engine at the moment but as the other 2 have joined together in a partnership and not a buy out as in the header no one really has an idea how this will work out but i feel they will reduce googles domination in the search engine arena in a big way.As they say time will tell and competition has to be seen as a good thing.

 

Already many search engines are running with yahoo technology.

Altavista and others.!!

Now bing should be able to consolidate and provide a better search

 

Somehow, some people here think the two combined will somehow give Google a run for the money, but they ignore the fact that just because two relatively little used engines start sharing the same engine does not increase their total share, which would amount to something around 25% compared to Google's 65-75%.

But now you are taking two groups of people that might actually be part of the same group. iow, Some Yahoo users may already be Bing users. And then there are those who will defect because they don't like Bing/Microsoft. Plus, many, many use Yahoo as a portal and may not care this being taken over by MS.

So this may actually reduce their total share to less than what it was before.

 

you will never know...who knows?

 

Bu your subject is all wrong. Microsoft/Bing did not "buy yahoo" - this is merely a revenue- and technology-share partnership between two companies that will remain separate entities.