Microsoft Looks To Refuel Talks With Yahoo

froggero1 writes "The New York Post is reporting that Microsoft wants to rekindle the takeover talks with Yahoo. According to the article, Yahoo! has repeatability turned away their offers, but Microsoft hopes that a lucrative 50 billion dollar offer will bring them back to the table. This move would increase Microsoft's web search market share to roughly 38%."

Comments

Re:holy crap

[thrillseeker]

What makes you say that? Look at all the traffic Yahoo and it's sub-sites get.

If all that traffic was generating sufficient revenue and not trending strongly down post-Google then Yahoo wouldn't be for sale.

Re:Increase share?

[ArhcAngel]

I've already sent a letter to Yahoo support stating if this happens I am closing all of my accounts and switching entirely to Google as my new portal. I created a Hotmail account about 2 months before Microsoft announced they were purchasing it. When I found out I contacted Hotmail and insisted they close my account before the turnover and they said they couldn't do that because they didn't have the ability to delete accounts. I switched to Yahoo because at the time I was changing ISPs pretty regularly and getting tired of sending out change of email address emails. Unlike many of the comments I see here I rarely have any problems with Yahoo. I would hate to lose Yahoo as a viable choice. Remember, even "do no evil" Google without a good alternative choice could start to stagnate without competition.