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Overture To Buy AltaVista
Nate writes "Overture announced that they bought AltaVista today for $140M in cash and stock. This follows closely on the heels of Yahoo's purchase of Inktomi. Considering the significant financial muscle of Yahoo and Overture, I hope that Google can continue to maintain their lead. For those of you who aren't familiar with Overture, they are the 800-pound gorilla in the pay-for-placement listing market. When you search in Yahoo, those Sponsor Matches at the top are provided by Overture."
That's all fine and dandy but Google is still by far the best way to search the web. It has more features than a geek's leatherman and is faster than Superman on speed.
So what if sometimes it dances a lil'bit.
Posting as directed.
Overture and Yahoo may have more money; however, no amount can make me want to go to a search engine that I can't view in the "Bork!" Language. Bork, Bork, Bork!
Which is it? Is Google a big brother monopolist or a scrappy underdog? I'm confused.
Bring a tear to my eye this news does. It is so 1999 and sweet of them. Brings back found memories of the old new economy. Hopefull all those $200K CFO's from back then will lift a spatula at their current job in honor of this event.
Papa Legba come and open the gate
An unprofitable Internet company buys another unprofitable business company! Who says the Internet boom was over?
But when it comes to the crunch, the pr0n search results are largely the same for both, and at the end of the day, isn't that what we're all here for?