Comments on: Yahoo and Microsoft No Longer Speaking. Google Deal May Be The Only Option Left

By: Car Dealers

Car Dealers — Fri, 08 May 2009 03:02:05 +0000

just meandered in….

Really love google, very fine website. Have a nice day….

By: Yahoo Fights For Board Control: Analyst Suggests AOL Merger

Yahoo Fights For Board Control: Analyst Suggests AOL Merger — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:36:35 +0000

[...] investors that it did the right thing by spurning Microsoft’s various offers, especially the last one which had Microsoft just buying Yahoo’s search business, in favor of doing a search [...]

By: Kolarela

Kolarela — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:16:52 +0000

I buy Smibs

By: Ravi

Ravi — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:52:43 +0000

Yes, That is the only thing left and that is what happened now Google Adsense will have a new space i.e Yahoo Search Results. So the deal is final that Yahoo will place Google ads on their pages. However the deal is limited to US and Canada only. One good thing for users by this deal is their instant messaging will be collaborated so that GTalk and Y! Messenger users can talk to each other.

http://technolo...o-searches.html

By: Massive Destruction Of Shareholder Value, Employee Morale and The Health Of The Internet

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:38:52 +0000

[...] noon PST Yahoo announced that all talks with Microsoft were formally off, and the stock fell further. It eventually climbed back a little, but by the end of the trading [...]

By: Terry

Terry — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 06:07:35 +0000

What I want to know is how does this affect the advertiser? ASK has always done the same thing, serving it’s own paid search listings along with Google’s. Often times you could see the same advertiser’s ad twice in a row, possibly even competing with themselves for placement. Be interesting to see if this makes it by the feds.

By: TechCrunch en français » Yahoo se jette dans les bras de Google

TechCrunch en français » Yahoo se jette dans les bras de Google — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 05:08:56 +0000

[...] parallèle Yahoo avait aussi annoncé la fin des discussions officielles avec Microsoft; ces derniers n’étant apparemment intéressés que par un rachat partiel de Yahoo qui lui [...]

By: Liveblogging Yahoo-Google Conference Call

Liveblogging Yahoo-Google Conference Call — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 03:43:59 +0000

[...] Yang: Our discussions with MSFt have concluded, after a number of meetings, including a meeting on June 8 in which chairman Roy Bostock and [...]

By: Gary D

Gary D — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 03:09:23 +0000

Let’s take a look at Yahoo for a minute. Falling fast in search and has to partner with their biggest competitor. HotJobs aquisition, lapped by upstarts with little funding. GeoCitiies…..could have been MySpace or Facebook with a saavy executive team, but failed to invest in technology or furthering the brand. Broadband.com…. could have been Itunes, didn’t Semel supposedly have the media connections to make this billion dollar investment successful? Yahoo is looking to be very good at taking a successful business and slowly drowning it. Hey, if you want to be a generalist, don’t pretend like you are trying to change the world. Time to shake some things up over there.

By: kk

kk — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 01:41:16 +0000

@ 14 . Its not about Jerry , its about Yahoo. Yahoo still has a chance to come up under someone from a technical background rather than someone who has is here for the quick money and has no idea how tech companies run. Carl is going to hurt Yahoo the most …. and this time he is going to lose big himself too.

By: TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » YahooはMicrosoftと完全決別。Googleが唯一残された可能性

TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » YahooはMicrosoftと完全決別。Googleが唯一残された可能性 — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 23:56:18 +0000

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By: Google/Yahoo Search Partnership Announcement At 1:30 This Afternoon

Google/Yahoo Search Partnership Announcement At 1:30 This Afternoon — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 23:14:38 +0000

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By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 21:59:47 +0000

Serves him right?… What? All Yahoo shareholders lost on this one, not just Carl Ichan.

I think Carl Ichan is way better for Yahoo at this point in time than Jerry Yang. Jerry put in a poison pill that would hinder a take-over attempt even if it is the best thing for Yahoo. It also keeps him and his buddies from getting voted off the board.

If all Jerry wanted to do was play games like a little 2 year old he shouldn’t have taken the company public. Once you take a company public you are playing with other people’s money and you have an obligation to serve them.

He’s not going to get away with this. It may take some time, but Jerry’s days are numbered and I’ll be glad to see him gone!

By: Deep Throat

Deep Throat — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 21:55:52 +0000

It was predicted here first in February.

By: LeoGCarroll

LeoGCarroll — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 21:52:51 +0000

How does this statement by Yahoo today jibe with a Google deal?

“Yahoo!’s Board of Directors has determined, after careful evaluation, that such a transaction would not be consistent with the company’s view of the converging search and display marketplaces, would leave the company without an independent search business that it views as critical to its strategic future”

By: kk

kk — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 20:29:35 +0000

I knew it Carl Ichan was going to lose it big this time because everyone thought Microsoft would buy Yahoo no matter what in order to compete with Google ….. haha serves him right.

By: Yahoo Losing Two More

Yahoo Losing Two More — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 20:11:21 +0000

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By: Carl Starrett

Carl Starrett — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 20:04:32 +0000

I now that right now, Yahoo is an underachiever. Since October 2007, users of Yahoo! 360 like me have been waiting for the new blogging/social networking platform to be rolled out. In the mean time, Yahoo continues to stay unfocussed and rolled out garbage like Shine and generally run around like a chicken with its head cut off. Nonetheless, Yahoo is still a successful.

In today’s economy, most American corporations would kill to have what amounts to be a 10%-12& profit margin. Yahoo makes a lot of money, but it is still a punching bag because it pales in comparison to the profits and success of Google. While some at Yahoo are running around like Chicken Little, the sky is not necessarily falling.

By: George Blank

George Blank — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 20:03:33 +0000

This post? UGH.

By: Peter Urban

Peter Urban — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:56:01 +0000

I buy Smibs – it’s less of a lottery

By: Peter Urban

Peter Urban — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:54:52 +0000

Doesn’t surprise me. Neither MS not big Y know what they want to do. Google seems to be the only one with a concept. Guess who wins…?

By: Bob Wong

Bob Wong — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:54:10 +0000

…did anyone notice big site slowdowns recently? Around 15:45 Eastern.

Seemed like Google AdSense had a snag, slowing page loads to a crawl on sites with Google ads. Appeared to affect TechCrunch, MySQL doc pages, even localhost pages that include Google ads…

By: Rick Glowe

Rick Glowe — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:52:58 +0000

The story broke here b4 the journal. (earlier that 1/2 hr ago.)

By: Rick Glowe

Rick Glowe — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:51:30 +0000

good thing I sold at $29 ages ago.. Carl Icon must be going nuts! He has lost a lot of bux on this one.

By: Pallab

Pallab — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:51:04 +0000

I read this over at WSJ half an hour ago.
But, I still dont think Yahoo is gonna outsource its search to google.
Advertisements to Google, ok yeah.. I could accept that, that may be profitable.
But this?