Comments on: Wait. Yahoo and AOL? I Was Looking Forward To Something More…Fierce.

By: perde

perde — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 16:22:34 +0000

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By: undiagnosed

undiagnosed — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 09:25:40 +0000

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The Yahoo/Microsoft business has turned to utter farce. Michael Arrington’s line left me in stitches:
Wait. Yahoo and AOL? I Was Looking Forward To Something More…Fierce.
Mathew Ingram calls it “desperation squared.” We have now…

By: David

David — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 12:26:48 +0000

They probably saw:
http://www.5min...r-Yahoo-5794173

By: Clay

Clay — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 04:50:17 +0000

Jay: You are the only one on this board who has a clue.

Steve Poland: How does yahoo’s 24% Display market share + AOL’s <3% add up to 65% ??.

Sandra G: You have been reading cnn too much….
“technologies don’t mix” ? Technical problems are solved easily by technical people, don’t worry you’re little head about that.
“disgruntled employees leaving” ? you mean like the 2500 which Jerry Yang was planning on firing before the MSFT takeover announcement?
“advertisers flee to google and thier share climbes to 80%” I suppose you mean paid search here, why exaclty do you suppose a company would stop paying for ads on a larger platform with even more eyeballs?
“big mergers dont work, i.e. Carley Fiona/HP” – Exxon/Mobile isnt working? Cingular/ATT isn’t working? Give me a break. BTW, I used to work at HP, and Carley was an idiot from day 1. The Compaq merger notwithstanding.

By: Andrew Horowitz

Andrew Horowitz — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 23:31:59 +0000

Chris….. Thanks..

I seem to think that there is too much overlap of site design and the need for both to go unnoticed. While it would be a difficult thing to accomplish, the truth is that it may be more palatable to Yang…

http://www.thed...l-yahoo-merger/

Andrew

By: Kyle

Kyle — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:18:58 +0000

Sounds like a leaky faucet over at Yahoo!…Jerry has put on his poker face therefore I think we should compare him to “Jerry Yang” (World Series Champion) not Mel Gibson..

http://racetalk...communications/

By: Rolls

Rolls — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:17:58 +0000

Oh, this deal will happen, there is already agreement on the name for the combined entity.
AOL + Y! = Y’AOL — as in “y’all come back again soon, ya hear?”

By: fadi

fadi — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:10:42 +0000

Danger deal goes along my theory!

By: John

John — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:08:57 +0000

I’m still confused by everyone being so down on Yahoo even trying. Apparently there is room for only one company and if you don’t beat Google you might as well give up. I’d rather see Yahoo try to become the Apple of web portals. Maybe not close to the biggest but influential and with some good products. Maybe they will fail at that but I’d rather it was because they gave it a shot and were beat than because MS just shuts it down.

All the trash talkers should sell their Yahoo stock and buy MS (or Google) stock if you think the winners are all decided. Oh you don’t own any Yahoo stock? Then why do you care what Yahoo does? It can’t be because you care about any of Yahoo’s sites or tools, because MS doesn’t have anything to offer those. I can’t imagine anyone cares who’s server the ads are coming from.

By: Anatoly

Anatoly — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:16:17 +0000

Michael,
You claim you dont have answers. Have you tried posting your question on Yahoo Answers, soon to be Microsoft Live Crowed Sourced Knowledge Center(tm).

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:20:28 +0000

Techcrunch.com vs Valleywag.com… gossip and rumors – I can’t tell the difference anymore. Techcrunch, please go back to journalistic integrity and less of rumors and gossip.

By: Steve Poland

Steve Poland — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:53:39 +0000

I called it last week — I disagree that Yahoo needs to compete with Google; I think they are going in a different direction. If they team with AOL, then they have so many weapons in the battle for behavioral display advertising — and access to probably 65% (?) of the eyeballs on the web [via pageviews; just like Google commands that via search queries].

Match them up with the ISPs and you’re doing some real damage with behavioral display advertising.

My call on YAHOO/AOL from last week: http://stevepol...ft-in-the-face/

Matching up with ISPs: http://www.mark...p;type=textlink

By: José Teixidó

José Teixidó — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:51:57 +0000

‘And I’ll have that vanilla Ice cream with some Vanilla on it, no syrup thanks’.

This is just downright… BLAH!. AOL? why not merging with the Wenger Swiss Army knife factory, they would be more useful than AOL.

This started like a Star Wars like epic fight, then turned into Saving private Ryan and now it is…a Soap Opera? Yikes. Somebody please save them!.

By: Dyde

Dyde — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:50:40 +0000

The new website will be Yol.com. I like. Less typing needed

By: Lou

Lou — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:00:41 +0000

Google is simply a great ad agency that dominates the search space with their fraudulent Pay Per Click model. Yahoo needs to partner with an ad agency that can’t help them monetize their traffic. Yahoo.com is still the #1 most visited site both globally and across the U.S. Yahoo desperately need an advertising and marketing force to help them sell ads. Microsoft is not the answer, but Time Warner may be.

By: gd

gd — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:33:59 +0000

don’t know what going to happen finally but i think yahoo for sure must take some hints from this video http://coollink...r-yahoo-5794173

By: Lisa

Lisa — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 09:16:39 +0000

Michael’s entry may be crap, but these comments (several of them anyway) are very insightful on this topic.