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Microsoft/Yahoo! Merger a Good Idea?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the the-big-get-bigger dept.

NorbMan writes "Last month there was speculation about Microsoft's interest in joining forces with Yahoo! to battle Google. Today, a Merrill Lynch analyst recommended a Yahoo! takeover by Microsoft. From the article: "A Yahoo/MSN-Microsoft combination would have garnered approximately 41% share in the US of search queries [in April] versus Google with 44%.""

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  1. Very bad idea by MarkByers · · Score: 5, Funny

    Very bad idea. No one will trust their business to a company called 'Microhoo!'.

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    I'll probably be modded down for this...
    1. Re:Very bad idea by jkrise · · Score: 4, Funny

      Microsoft merging with Yahoo! is like me merging with pizza. It ends up with a slightly larger me.

      While you may feel larger and bigger temporarily, after merging with pizza... after a few hours, the pizza exits with a foul smell, and you're left longing for another merger. True growth can NEVER be achieved by mergers. You need to Grow Up to understand that.

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      If you keep throwing chairs, one day you'll break windows....
    2. Re:Very bad idea by Dannon · · Score: 4, Funny

      "Where do yoooooooooooooooooooooou want to go today?"

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      Good judgment comes from experience.
      Experience comes from bad judgment.
  2. Genius! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    What's better than having the trust and reliability of Microsoft paired with the strategy and insight of Yahoo!

    Oh...

  3. Yes it's a great idea. by El_Muerte_TDS · · Score: 4, Funny

    Instead of two large companies to worry about we only have to fear one even larger company.

  4. I shall answer this question with another question by mattpointblank · · Score: 4, Funny

    Would Dracula merging with Frankenstein's Monster to take out, uh, Buffy, be a good idea? No, you'd just get an even uglier monster (especially compared to the sexy Goog- uh, Buffy) with a combination of skills that would seem to plug the others' holes (eg, Dracula's shapeshifting plus FM's zombieness) but really just leave it trying to focus on too many things at once (Blood? Electricity? Love?!). Plus as any geek knows, Buffy always wins.