Comments on: Why the Google-Yahoo Ad Deal Is Something to Fear

By: alkazaider

alkazaider — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 03:06:20 +0000

What would you do if the internet crashed for good? Would you get used to life with less communication and less “being connected” or would you be pretty bummed for the rest of your life?

This is assuming it was not fixed. Perhaps some largescale EMP attack or something that crippled it for the next 50+ years or so.

By: psevdolokulop

psevdolokulop — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:17:16 +0000

How many times you eat during a normal … every day life?
are you the type of person who eats a bit and often?
or rarely and too much?

i usually have 3 and i’m the 2nd type of person (though it’s not that healthy)

8 am breakfast

3pm lunch

9pm a snack.

By: howard

howard — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:51:25 +0000

good staff for sure

By: NeoNet 2.0 » Archive du blog » Mon avis sur l’accord Google-Yahoo

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:45:14 +0000

[...] Comme le souligne Micheal Arrington sur TechCrunch, le problème de Yahoo! n’a jamais été un manque de financement, et plus d’argent n’a jamais aidé Yahoo! à améliorer ses services. [...]

By: Internet Evolution - Editor's Blog - GooHoo: Should We Fear It?

Internet Evolution - Editor's Blog - GooHoo: Should We Fear It? — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:19:58 +0000

[...] It’s no great shock our readers are divided — so is everyone else, as evidenced by some recent coverage. Over the weekend, The New York Times published an article�entitled “Why the Google-Yahoo Ad Deal Is Nothing to Fear” — which was rebutted the following day by an article on TechCrunch entitled “Why the Google-Yahoo Ad Deal Is Something to Fear.” [...]

By: A monopoly controls only the supply side of a transaction, so it can’t change whatever it wants. | Home Business Work Online

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 09:00:52 +0000

[...] agree with Michael Arrington about his post. Google is monopolising ad deals in its own because of the demand and supply. If Google were to [...]

By: Yahoo’s Promises v. Yahoo’s Reality: Congress Finally Gets It

Yahoo’s Promises v. Yahoo’s Reality: Congress Finally Gets It — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 03:29:53 +0000

[...] is the same tune I and others have been singing all [...]

By: Is our beloved Google Dead? « Dynamic Disruption

Is our beloved Google Dead? « Dynamic Disruption — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 06:16:10 +0000

[...] “GOOGLE controls about 70 percent of the search advertising market. Doesn’t that give it a monopolist’s ability to set prices as high as it wishes?” Apparently [...]

By: Google y su acuerdo con Yahoo frente al monopolio oculto

Google y su acuerdo con Yahoo frente al monopolio oculto — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:41:26 +0000

[...] ese no es el punto importante a discutir, como muchos creen. El problema viene motivado porque una unica empresa va a acaparar el mercado de la publicidad de buscadores, y para la salud de un sector lo ideal es siempre que haya [...]

By: Le cocktail du Dimanche #12 - ilonet

Le cocktail du Dimanche #12 - ilonet — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 14:00:14 +0000

[...] Google / Yahoo : Un accord dangereux L’affaire Microsoft-Yahoo a fait couler beaucoup d’encre cet été. Pour éviter de se faire racheter par le géant américain, Yahoo a cherché une alternative, et s’est tourné vers Google. Ainsi, Google va maintenant pouvoir placer ses publicités adsense sur le moteur de recherche de Yahoo… Ce qui pourrait avoir un impact négatif ! Pour un complément d’informations, je vous invite à lire ce billet : Why the Google-Yahoo Ad Deal Is Something to Fear [en]. [...]

By: Consultant Web » Yahoo et Google nous emmènent tout droit vers un monopole dans la publicité autour des recherches

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 11:50:46 +0000

[...] publi-rédactionnel dans le NewYork times la semaine dernière et plusieurs billets sur le blog de Google et mémé un site entier consacré [...]

By: Yahoo et Google nous emmènent tout droit vers un monopole dans la publicité autour des recherches

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 07:02:57 +0000

[...] publi-rédactionnel dans le NewYork times la semaine dernière et plusieurs billets sur le blog de Google et mémé un site entier consacré [...]

By: Yahoo et Google nous emmènent tout droit vers un monopole dans la publicité autour des recherches

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 07:02:57 +0000

[...] publi-rédactionnel dans le NewYork times la semaine dernière et plusieurs billets sur le blog de Google et mémé un site entier consacré [...]

By: TechCrunch en français » Yahoo et Google nous emmènent tout droit vers un monopole dans la publicité autour des recherches

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 04:40:26 +0000

[...] publi-rédactionnel dans le NewYork times la semaine dernière et plusieurs billets sur le blog de Google et mémé un site entier consacré [...]

By: stephanie

stephanie — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 18:48:11 +0000

Hi, my name is Stephanie – I was a co-founder of GoTo.com/Overture, which Yahoo bought in 2003. Here is what I want to know. What the hell did Yahoo do with the paid search engine that invented paid search that they paid $1.6 bn for? They got a bargain at the time, and they bought GoTo precisely to compete with Google and improve their monetization of search. Yet I understand from folks that were still there that they let it lie fallow and unattended to for years, there in Pasadena, while Google crawled up their back, until one day they woke up and realized Google had eaten their lunch. Not to mention a little known fact that GoTo was actually in a patent infringement lawsuit with Google at the time for their blatant theft of our business model, a lawsuit which Yahoo inherited and which they resolved in exchange for Google stock – which made them a couple hundred million dollars in one year but created a monster (no licensing agreement, royalty, nothing)? This is a matter of public record – in their public filings – I was in fact no longer at GoTo/Overture at the time of Yahoo’s acquisition but am a small Yahoo shareholder still as a consequence and have kept up with Yahoo’s activities. The fact that Yahoo will make significantly more money outsourcing search to Google than they will with their own internal paid search machinery (ie. GoTo/Overture) says a lot about how they blew it in applying their talent and resources to optimize their acquisition of GoTo/Overture – because we know that Google is also making a lot in this rev share distribution deal – which says to me that Google has evolved AdWords and AdSense to create at least 4X revenue per search than Yahoo did with the original offering that they bought in 2003 and then didn’t do anything with. So now, to survive, Yahoo must sell their soul, contribute to the monopoly of Google who they literally gave the business model to, and give away revenue that they could have been generating for themselves if they had only focused on the incredible asset that we built and they bought. As a shareholder, I think Yahoo and Jerry Yang should be sued for this atrocious destruction of value – both killing GoTo and not accepting the Microsoft deal for his own vain ego. We all held on to our stock because we felt there was just NO WAY Yahoo wouldn’t accept this deal. I continue to this day to be mortified.

By: Look, Yahoo, We Just Can’t Afford A Monopoly In Search Advertising

Look, Yahoo, We Just Can’t Afford A Monopoly In Search Advertising — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 10:33:18 +0000

[...] had what amounted to a advertorial in the New York Times earlier this week. Google wrote not one but two blog posts on the matter, and launched a whole [...]

By: The Don’t-Worry-Jack Yahoogle Argument (BoomTown Is Still Not Reassured) | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 07:33:45 +0000

[...] has got to say, we’re still a smidgen nervous. Okay, tons and tons. (And, it turns out TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington agrees with me, so you know it is [...]

By: Marc

Marc — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 05:41:15 +0000

Totally agree with Arrington. I also like the economic tack you’ve been taking for the past year or so, to make your case. Arguments based on solid economics are the most powerful you can make.

By: MGA

MGA — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 14:20:14 +0000

Thank you for the article. I totally agree with you, but i have comment about the comment area. How come it turned out to be such a place. First 10 comments are only swearing each other. That’s so sad…

By: Google Needs Better Freaken Lawyers, No Seriously « Dynamic Disruption

Google Needs Better Freaken Lawyers, No Seriously « Dynamic Disruption — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 03:19:25 +0000

[...] Google Needs Better Freaken Lawyers, No Seriously Jump to Comments This is a big week for Google. Its new mobile phone software called Android is debuting, and there will be much debate about whether this much hyped project is going to get any traction. But that discussion may get drowned out by another. It seems as if everywhere you turn in the past two weeks, someone is wringing their hands about Google, the monopolist. [...]

By: To Fear or Not to Fear: That is the Question (About the Google-Yahoo Ad Deal) | Media News: Internet Marketing & Online Advertisng

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 01:17:43 +0000

[...] TechCrunch is so afraid of the deal, I’m thinking the makers of Xanax must be making a huge profit off of their anxiety [...]

By: R.J. Lewis

R.J. Lewis — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 21:31:10 +0000

What about the fact that once a monopoly – any search provider would be tempted to “tamper” with the auctions. When there is no competition, who is there to validate whether the prices that appear in the “auction” are real or inflated? Who’s to say Google won’t change it’s model once it has monopolistic pricing power? Economics 101 – monopolies maximize profit through artificially high price controls. “Do no evil” works right up until the point that greed takes over – just look no further than Wall Street.

By: Craig Danuloff

Craig Danuloff — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:25:18 +0000

But if the google traffic is worth the price, and 25% of your spend comes from Yahoo clicks that are not worth the price, and you cannot opt-out of those, what you gonna do? Pay Google probably. That’s the problem.

By: StateLocator.com

StateLocator.com — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 19:44:49 +0000

what state am i in?
if you need to ask a computer what state your in you better “find yourself” first.

LocationExpert.com

By: Kevin

Kevin — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 19:42:35 +0000

I definitely agree with you, Michael. If people thought a Yahoo!-Microsoft deal was absurd, I wonder what’s racing through their mind now that there’s a Google-Yahoo! deal. This is going to not only hurt advertisers, but publishers as well.

1) Advertisers will be competing at a higher cost and/or less density of traffic.
2) Publishers will no longer receive as much ads to display. They already don’t know how much they make per click, imagine competing with another major search engine!

Heck, I hope it happens so their empire may later collapse.