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Yahoo Rejects Microsoft Search Offer

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the unfriendly-business dept.

mytrip writes to mention a Financial Times article detailing Microsoft's apparent interest in Yahoo!, and Yahoo!'s rude reaction to their interest. From the article: "The fight is on between the three internet search titans, after Yahoo's Terry Semel laid down the gauntlet to Microsoft saying the software giant's recently elevated ambitions in the search arena were a lost cause. 'My impartial advice to Microsoft is that you have no chance. The search business has been formed,' he said in an interview with the New Yorker's Ken Auletta."

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  1. Google? by biocute · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "The search business has been formed", that was what I heard when Yahoo was teh king, and guess who came in and took over the search business?

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    1. Re:Google? by jellomizer · · Score: 4, Insightful

      The only problem was Yahoo was the king before it became king before the Internet became common place .
      First you take an idea that someone else made and mature it.
      You become the King until the market stabilizes.
      Then someone else takes your place for the stable market.

      It is not fair but that is the way it seems to go.

      Like GUI OS's
      Xerox made the GUI Interface.
      Apple took the idea and matured it.
      Apple becomes the king of GUI
      Then Microsoft comes and takes your ideas and wins for the stable GUI market.

      It is not always about quality it is just about having the charm to get most people to use it over something else.
      Like Google seemed to load a little faster then Yahoo so people with dial-ups used it more. And when the internet became common place and mature a lot of people were still using dialup.

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    2. Re:Google? by LegendLength · · Score: 4, Insightful

      The only problem was Yahoo was the king before the Internet became common place .

      No I reckon their biggest problem was the amount of crap on their front page.

  2. That quote brings to mind the phrase.... by spiritraveller · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "famous last words"

    And I'm not sure who I dislike more at this point.

    At least Microsoft hasn't been handing political prisoners over to the Chinese government.

    1. Re:That quote brings to mind the phrase.... by Whiney+Mac+Fanboy · · Score: 4, Insightful
      At least Microsoft hasn't been handing political prisoners over to the Chinese government.

      Amnesty International disagrees with you:
      An Amnesty International report has cited Microsoft among a clutch of leading computer firms heavily criticised for helping to fuel 'a dramatic rise in the number of people detained or sentenced for internet-related offences'.
      They just didn't get caught as badly as Yahoo did.

      So - feel free to dislike them both.
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  3. Transcription of dialogue... by terrahertz · · Score: 5, Funny

    MS Rep: Hey baby, how 'bout lettin' big daddy in on a piece o' that action?
    Y! Rep: Oh no you dit'in! Oh no you dit'in! (gesticulates the talk-to-the-hand)

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  4. Stupid by nagora · · Score: 5, Insightful
    It may be that Yahoo's search engine is better than MS's (just as a kick in the balls is better than being shot in the head) but to say that the world's richest company has no chance in any field just shows that the speaker is an idiot.

    TWW

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  5. Homepage by therage96 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I predict this will probably appear in the news in the next few weeks.

    "And in a surprising move, Microsoft has chosen to make live.com the default homepage any new Internet Explorer installation."

    Microsoft 1, Yahoo -screwed-

  6. Breaking News by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Terry Semel of Yahoo! corporation was found dead this morning. At this point the cause of death is being attributed to a chair leg that is still lodged deeply inside the victim's skull. Police have ruled out accidental death and are compiling a list of suspects.

  7. How are you gentlemen by Dachannien · · Score: 5, Funny

    My impartial advice to Microsoft is that you have no chance,' [Yahoo's Terry Semel] said.

    When asked for comment, Google's representative, CATS, said, "Ohhh, no, no, no. All your search are belong to us."