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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...
  2. Don't think so... by kinocho · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Somehow, I think that the moment yahoo joins (msn eats it up) with microsoft, mysteriously half the 41% will move to google or another different engine.

    Is not numbers we are talking here, is not even efficiency. IT's TRUST.

  3. Makes no sense from a platform point of view by brentlaminack · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Ok, these 'market analysts' look at spreadsheets of market shares, etc. Look at the technology under the hood: Microsoft uses all Windows products. Yahoo uses BSD and PHP as their environment. I'm sure Gates and company would LOVE to be running such a large, critical portion of their business on OSS! Or throw all Yahoo's code away and re-write in .NET? Right!! From a platform point of view, anybody who thinks about this for more than 30 seconds will see that this is a non-starter. Nothing here. Move along.

  4. 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...