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Yahoo! Buys Musicmatch

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the do-you-ehar-what-i-hear dept.

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."

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  1. Internet Conglomerations? by aldeng · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Is it just me, or are all of the internet portals (MSN, AOL, Yahoo) building their own little digital life empires? How long till Google follows suit, or will the even?

    1. Re:Internet Conglomerations? by AKAImBatman · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Is it just me, or are all of the internet portals (MSN, AOL, Yahoo) building their own little digital life empires?

      I'm surprised it took you this long to notice. The only way you become a mega-corporation is by diversifying across your product lines. The search engines have been in a unique position to do this in the technology world.

      How long till Google follows suit, or will the even?

      You mean they're not? Between the search engine, Froogle, Google Blogs, GMail, Google Groups, Google News, and other features, I'd have thought they'd be on the top of the list for "digital empires".

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  2. shocking by -kertrats- · · Score: 4, Interesting

    yet another pointless add-on to clutter up yahoo more...they're reminding me of that new game katamari damacy...

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  3. Re:Second rate! by rainman_bc · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Personally, Yahoo lost me forever with their search engine with the X10 popups. Switched to google around that time, as I suspect many others did the same.

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  4. Yahoo still trumps Google by brunes69 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    While I like Google better as a company, and I like their search, email, and news site sbetter, I sure do wish they had some of the portal features Yahoo has. I mean, with Yahoo! Calender, Yahoo! Addressbook, Yahoo! greetings, Yahoo! Messanger, and Yahoo! Mail, and the seamless integration between them all, Yahoo is basically an online groupware suite.

    I also wish Google news was customizeable like my.yahoo.com - while Google news is more timely and more relevant, many of the topics have no interest to me, and I'd like to be able to insert stock tickers and whatnot. My Yahoo! even lets you plug your own RSS feeds in now.

  5. Re:Second rate! by g-doo · · Score: 4, Interesting

    How about...a first-rate portal since its founding? It seems that quite a few people scoff at anything that's not Google/Apple/Linux/etc. without much basis. While Yahoo! Search may have lost its number one position a few years ago, it has certainly reworked its search engine to the point where it's comparable to Google's. It's just that many Slashdotters have tried no search engine recently other than Google, so they wouldn't know.