instead of endlessly throwing money into live search and panama and still be labelled number 2 or 3 is nonsense. Microsoft, yahoo, ebay should partner and take the gas out of google. ebay and yahoo already has a lot and all they have to do is provide a very good platform for all the merchandise the user wants. Today users go to google and search for them. All google does is place 2 advrts at the toip and 6-8 advrts to the right and 8-10 search results. Most of the users just clicks the advrts (making money for google) and get what they want. Instead and yahoo, ebay, microsoft focus on their technology and provide a similar but better direct access to all what users wants to buy, then i believe google will take a beating. Best regards.
Why? What do you think is the industry of yahoo and or ebay? Yahoo also sells merchandise on top of being search engine. Ebay is just a leader in auctions. I don't see, how they all three can't merge and effectively cater to the needs of user base. I know, there are lotz of rendunancies in all three companies, but 3 can't survive independently.
what has yahoo ,msn and google to do with ebay ebay plays no role nor would it have any effect on current equations if it was acquired by google or yahhoo or yahoo/msn
eBay is trying to sell new and used goods at lower prices by auctioning. Yahoo sells new goods and tries to bring the prices down by showcausing more and more sellers making them compete among each other for more buyers. eBay has skype and yahoo,msn has messenger services Microsoft got the money and yahoo.ebay got the user base. All these three can merge and entice their existing user base by making them get what they want on their web properties. By making yahoo,ebay, msn into one internet subsidiary and making that subsidary fight google, microsoft will focus on its office suite. google has miserably failed in almost every thing except search engine and online videos. I see a perfect fit.
True, but eBay sure drags along a lot of traffic and would probably be beneficial to Yahoo! or Microsoft if they bought it.
MSN and Yahoo.... can make a lot of thinks but they must take serious desicions we have problem if there is only one giant in the area
well, if they 3 get together, then it will be fun to watch google VS Yahoo+msn+ebay but i dont think they can beat google. as google also buying some big company. so yah lets see, time will say
I don't see why anyone would want to see a half a trillion dollar company be in charge instead anyway.
I second that Haha jk Well... this is making it sound like some online corporate war ... I have nothing against Google.. who's side would you go on
They can never beat Google 'coz Google also is using different strategy and affiliates like mozilla firefox, technorati and more....
It should be a challenege. If they want challenge the search giant they should go after unit by unit. Targeting individually from AdSense to frooogle and on....