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Yahoo! Buys Musicmatch
coyotegestalt writes "According to PC World, Yahoo! has just finalized a deal to buy Musicmatch (both its On Demand and download services) for $160 million. More details at IBD. This is a major narrowing of the online music market."
Great! A second-rate search engine buys a second rate MP3 player! News at 11!
In the future, I would want to not be isolated from my friends in the Space Station.
Funny how now you can use a company's search engine to crack a piece of its software!
You ready for an awesome knock-knock joke?
Knock knock?
Who's there?
Goo
Goo who?
GOOOOOOOOOOOGLE
But seriously....
that we have to listen to the Yahoo! yodel after every 4 mp3's?
Is it 5:30 yet?
Only if the whippees are llamas.
Sure, I could do tons of stuff on Yahoo. Get driving directions, play games online, read news, check stocks, do email, auctions, personals, movie trailers, but then my bookmarks would all have little yellow "Y!"'s next to them and that's only one step above butterflies and flags on my web browser, instant messenger, email client, and media player and that wreaks of conformity.
We've got to have tabbed browsing, odd codec playing, grass roots protocol speaking, vi and emacs running, happy little apps with a logo zoo full of loveable creatures. *Imagines tux dancing in a field with the fox, bird, gnu, and squirrel in slow motion*
Nobody doubted that yahoo provides a cool service, what you failed to notice was the little green logo on the top left of this page.
This is not an attack on yahoo or your character, its just a generalization about the demographics of slashdot, so start drinking the kool-aid.
Im dreaming ofa big bndwdth, That can resist the