The Death of G

Did I just hear that microsoft may purchase Yahoo?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18486561/

This may be a good thing for allus SEM's.

 

They are talking about it again. This is not the first time.

I think if microsoft buys yahoo and runs them it would make google stronger. Microsoft is not as good as yahoo running a search engine.

 

I think you have a valid point.

 

well, we can't do anything if they do.

 

I looked into yahoo/google balance sheet and consolidated income statement, it seems yahoo is generating more ROI than google... that is return on investment. I think they are doing pretty good.

 

but ROI has nothing to do with being the bigger, better site...google wins hands down on that level...

it'll be interesting to see if yahoo actually thinks about doing it this time...

 

Never heard of this...Good if Microsoft does that though...Then no problem with my messenger

 

Yahoo and MSN is way far away from Google, even they merges with other giants also, I don't think they'll come closer to G..

 

They win on being the bigger site. "Better" is very subjective. I've recently switched to Yahoo exclusively and have their search results to be on par/better than Google's. Just because Google had a better algorithm in 2004, doesn't mean they still do. Google's main strength now is it's public image and brand recognition. I personally don't trust them, so they offer me no benefit.

 

I'll admit...that is actually the reason i use them the most (apart from all the neat features they offer)...i haven't used yahoo search in a while...i'll have to go check it out and see if it's better/equal now

 

yeah of course... it just means that shareholders are happy and wouldn't think of selling it to microsoft

 

THere is already a thread discussing this topic at http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=319916

 

Yahoo didnt waste their money on youtube.

 

Google can not die in next 5 years, even if MSN steals their algorithm. Google took time to be popular and at least same time is required to a search engine to become more popular than Google.

 

google will never die in the hearts of the student.
google has alwayys been the only search enginge that didn't give us crap when we searched online for reports, day after day.

 

I don't understand this pessimism, no one can beat google? its possible, you just need couple of billion dollars and good brains. Yahoo didn't find good brains yet, maybe microsoft will help - they have some interesting people working, like Steve Balmer

 

With the integration of Live Search in Vista I can only see MS's market share increasing. Drastically.

Combine that with a merger with Yahoo, and within a year I could see a MS / Yahoo combination accounting for over half of all searches.

 

You must remember the guys running Yahoo search will be retained if the companies merge because we allknow MS search isn't as good as Yahoo.

 

Yeah, agree, if MS bought Y, they will gain the access to how to make a good SE just exactly like Y does. But I'd say, it's not good for us, it means less competition and we'll be left in few choices, I prefer they're still like now in separate companies to compete each other, and even hope there will be other giants coming in the arena. Monopoly is usually a bad thing

 

Either way, the MS/Yahoo! offering will have a lot of work to do to catch up!