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Yahoo agrees to allow Google to frustrate Microsoft!

Discussion in 'Yahoo' started by Spider-Man, Apr 9, 2008.

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    Breaking news from the BBC camp this evening:
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    Yahoo and Google, the world's two biggest search engines, have announced a two week experiment that will see them share advertising space.

    During the pilot, Google will be able to place ads alongside 3% of search results on Yahoo's website.

    Analysts say the move is designed to frustrate Microsoft, which has offered to buy Yahoo for $44.6bn (£22.6bn), or extract a higher offer.

    Microsoft said any lasting deal would not be in the consumers' interests.

    "Any definitive agreement between Yahoo and Google would consolidate over 90% of the search advertising market in Google's hands. This would make the market far less competitive," Brad Smith, Microsoft's General Counsel said.

    But Yahoo said the testing did not necessarily mean that "any further commercial relationship with Google will result".

    Investors reacted positively to the announcement with Yahoo shares rising 7%.

    "Yahoo has made a really clever move here," Cowen and Co analyst Jim Friedland said.

    "It looked like Microsoft had all the cards, Yahoo is at least now able to use this for leverage to get Microsoft to pay more," he said.

    Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer on Saturday gave Yahoo three weeks to agree to the company's offer or risk having the offer lowered.
     
    Spider-Man, Apr 9, 2008 IP
  2. FightRice

    FightRice Peon

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    Microsoft isn't going to pay anymore because of a experienment that will tell them what they already know.

    No one uses Yahoo to search, nor does anyone care who owns that company
     
    FightRice, Apr 9, 2008 IP
  3. Spider-Man

    Spider-Man Banned

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    #3

    Google     46.47%
    Yahoo! 17.16%
    Baidu 13.76%
    Microsoft 12.87%
    NHN 4.71%
    eBay 3.9%
    Time Warner (includes AOL) 1.6%
    Ask.com and related 1.1%
    Yandex 0.9%
    Alibaba.com 0.8%

    *Percentage of usage, stats published as of December 2007.

    As you were saying? The AOL/Microsoft bids stand as proof that someone cares who owns Yahoo;)
     
    Spider-Man, Apr 9, 2008 IP
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  4. FightRice

    FightRice Peon

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    I stand corrected, but i didn't know eBay had a search engine? Or does that count searches on ebay or something?
     
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  5. trevomanut

    trevomanut Active Member

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    Even yahoo and Microsoft combined can't stand against Google.But Google and Microsoft,this is another story. Maybe if Google buys Yahoo in a decade or so it will try to buy Microsoft as well.
     
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  6. Germz

    Germz Peon

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    Google and microsoft is not as strong as Google and Yahoo.
    Yahoo = better
    Microsoft = stick to making windows, leave the search engine to the pros.
     
    Germz, Apr 9, 2008 IP
  7. homebizseo

    homebizseo Peon

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    Yahoo is run worst than 13yearolds running a business out of a garage or basement.
     
    homebizseo, Apr 9, 2008 IP
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    Maybe you forget that yahoo search market share is decreasing and decreasing every month.

     
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  9. Fahd

    Fahd Well-Known Member

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    Yahoo is not just a search engine. Yahoo is a huge company with a lot of assets. Not just a search engine. Their search engine revenues are probably worth a tiny % of their net income.
     
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  10. tekz999

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    Gogogo Google , Eat Them For Breakfast
     
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    aspire Well-Known Member

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    As pointed out Yahoo is much bigger than what it seems at the first glance to us. But a Yahoo - Google partnership will also invite the attention of the Justice Dept. - they will never allow these two to join hands and monopolize the market.
     
    aspire, Apr 9, 2008 IP
  12. theultimate1

    theultimate1 Well-Known Member

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    Yep...

    Besides, frustration won't be the end result with Microsoft... INMHO, it's never a good thing to wake up an aged warrior... He can always come back and kick a$s... Mr. Ballmer, are you listening? :p
     
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    Good for yahoo, I suppose. On one hand, it gives MS urgency to act, while yahoo itself gains more intimate knowledge of how adsense works.
     
    sideserver, Apr 10, 2008 IP
  14. godsofchaos

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    Yeah its a good move for both of em... Live search engine, if it teamed up with G could have serious impact over the internet economy. Yahoo n G are fair players.... so imo... its a good deal that happened...
     
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    Microsoft is not looking at Yahoo search only, as MSN.co search might be as good as Yahoo's. Yahoo is a big corporation offering web hosting, Yahoo mail, Yahoo groups, Yahoo jobs, Yahoo classified, Flickr etc etc. Many people use one service or another. For example, I don't use Yahoo for mail but uses it for news & messenger.
     
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    Where did you get you facts? I don't think Yahoo is the second most widely used search engines. Baidu far exceeds yahoo in terms of users. :)
     
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  17. Spider-Man

    Spider-Man Banned

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    FYI - the stats were the official stats published for December 2007 which I still had a note of on my laptop for some peculiar reason :)confused:) Nonetheless, I couldn't be arsed looking for the March 2008 stats...but I'm sure they'd show a slightly different story now...
     
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    A few months ago, I wouldn't imagine this would actually happen.
     
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    seoindia Notable Member

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    Its very surprising that how did Google entered into such deal.
     
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    Where'd you get these stats my mans?

     
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