The best bet in any market is stiff competition. Microsoft understands yahoo is needed to stand up to Google. Google on the other is enjoying its present position as the leader in the market and would venture all possibiities to hold on to it. Such, is the desire of every business.

So let’s sit back while we await the INNOVATION of the CENTURY!

So let’s sit back while we await the INNOVATION of the CENTURY!

Why are you afraid of Google?

I have seen no mention this anywhere in anyones analysis.”

Great point Richard! Zimbra (www.zimbra.com) was the first serious contender to MS Exchange in years (Lotus is there but not new) and is so much more innovative on several fronts. So much for the market seeing another good Exchange competitor.

You think Microsoft will complete nicely????!!!! Bullshit.

I outta kick your ass for this article.

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“In order to improve its public image, Yahoo recently organized initiatives like workshops targeted at open source developers. Think of these as the distant equivalent of Google’s Summer of Code, which provided funding to Free software projects such as KDE, WordPress, Drupal and various independent projects – projects that begin as nothing more than a proposal from an ambitious computer science student with spare time.

Microsoft sells software for the desktop, unlike Yahoo, which is more focused on services that are delivered over the Web. If Microsoft were to acquire Yahoo, there would either be a conflict of interest or a situation where open source projects receive funding if and only if they build upon (even enrich) the Microsoft stack, including Windows. The Yahoo we once knew would no longer offer the same kind of treatment to Free software. “

that’s where they are vulnerable. NOBODY IS LOYAL TO GOOGLE. Publishers want to monetize their sites. Google adsense is a closed system with no reporting, no way to know if you are getting your best return on your traffic.

If Yahoo can build a better ad placement technology, blend in CPA/lead generation or other higher monetization components, report clearly to publishers what their sites are doing, what keywords are bringing what traffic and what revenue.

Give us a grep tool that will walk our sites and replace google adsense code with their code.

make me more money and i’ll drop google tomorrow.

also on the Google Doubleclick deal, FTC should make it conditional on google agreeing to never favor in its search results sites that use adsense.

those two issues would bring google back to earth.

For Starters, the MSN portal should be discontinued and all of Microsoft’s Live Products and Services should be added to the Yahoo portfolio and renamed Yahoo Live.
This means that Hotmail, Live Messenger and Live Search should all be added to the Yahoo Menu.
Plus all of Microsoft’s new Advertising Platforms should also be integrated with Yahoo’s Ad Partnerships under the Yahoo Ads umbrella.

Microsoft must use this tremendous opportunity to integrate all of their major Web brands into the Yahoo empire and use Yahoo as their only Web Based brand.
By using the Yahoo brand as their major Web flagship, Microsoft can then concentrate on what it does best by developing new and innovative Windows and Office Services for the IT World.

Of course in the future Microsoft may wish to release some parts of its Windows and Office Services for Online Subscribers and use the Windows brand across the Enterprise Web for ‘Cloud Computing’.
But in regards to Search, Ads and Communications, Microsoft should only use the Yahoo brand as their major Web Based platform.

With the right people on board, Yahoo could become a major revenue earner for the future Microsoft Web empire.

People act like Yahoo is already dead, but last I saw, Microsoft can’t even compete with Yahoo on any level, much less Google. In addition, Yahoo IS still making plenty of profit, just not at the rate that Google is. A lot of you guys are not looking at the actual facts.

All I can see happening is a bigger trainwreck than AOL TW ever was, and AOL TW actually made sense at the time!

You give Yahoo too much credit. It hasn’t been top tier for a long time (Yahoo Finance aside).

Lack of alternatives and difficulty of implementing them is not the issue when it comes to Microsoft, but rather their mentality when it comes to control of market share – which is one reason why people think of them as ‘evil’.

However, Google to a certain extent very much wants you ‘locked in’ – any company that wants to make money wants you to continue to use their services. The difference is the arena in which Google wants to lock things down. Rather than at an individual PC level, they are looking to ‘lock in’ information flow on the internet.

Open Social is a perfect example of this. It’s a great idea, but it still is inviting sites and developers to rely on Google for their products to work. Google may not control the information itself, but in these cases they do control the mechanism by which information is accessed.

Their search engine is another good example of this. It doesn’t change the content of your website – but because of their huge market share, if you don’t meet their criteria to rank high in search results, no one is getting to your content.

Google wants to be the operating system of the internet.
Rather than hardware, OS, and client software (which is Microsoft’s domain) – they are treating the entire internet as their hardware, the massive Google infrastructure and excellent search algorithm as the OS, and web-based services as client software.

Right now, it’s working out great for all of us. But if Google faces no real competition, they could eventually take on a more Microsoft-ish approach to the control they exert (a hyper-”locked in” syndrome to your point) – and that would be bad.

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You are talking services you use, not the ability to access those services. There are other advertising services, maps, and everything else you mention. You could switch to those rather easily.

If Windows goes away, how easily and quickly could you switch to another OS? This is a “locked in” syndrome that does not exist with Google.