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- superkendall, on 05/04/2008, -2/+24Hello people, Microsoft has already dropped the bid!
- aboyd, on 05/04/2008, -4/+18Even if Yahoo fails in the marketplace, they'll never run back to Microsoft (IMHO). Yahoo is built upon Linux, FreeBSD, MySQL, PHP, and Apache. They employ Rasmus, the guy who invented PHP. They own Zimbra, a competitor to Microsoft's Exchange. If Microsoft owns Yahoo, the Yahoo employees will be in constant fear of Microsoft pulling a "Hotmail" and switching out the technology, and killing off products. Things like developer.yahoo.com & the free YUI code would probably cease to exist. Because Yahoo has built itself up as an Open Source company (at the developer level), the employee outflux would be larger than normal if Microsoft came on board. So I suspect that Yang probably has already heard "anyone BUT Microsoft" a million times by now.
- mikephimikephi, on 05/04/2008, -3/+13Page 4 of this article certainly is necessary and informative
/s - BlueSkyfish, on 05/04/2008, -8/+17I'd much rather have a Google monopoly than a Microsoft monopoly.
- ElBeh, on 05/04/2008, -4/+11I still think that Microsoft will now focus their efforts on beating Yahoo!'s sorry ass until they come running back to them.
- bazzz, on 05/04/2008, -1/+8That's an article from April 11th???
- akkibaba, on 05/04/2008, -2/+9This guy also teaches a course entitled "How to hunt rats with bazookas."
- inactive, on 05/04/2008, -0/+6um. this article is over 20 days old...
- Joe_rigby, on 05/04/2008, -2/+7The loser is still ABC.
ABC: Still doesn't matter. - r69er87, on 05/04/2008, -0/+5what?
- notmiya, on 05/04/2008, -1/+6A consumer could be one that utilizes economic goods, not just the purchase of them.
- Lazydriver, on 05/04/2008, -1/+5Google keeps us happy with lots of free ***** and timely fixes to bugs, we can't complain. Plus we like how they treat their employees.
- aboyd, on 05/04/2008, -0/+4Maybe it wasn't even that much of a secret:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/09/yahoo-provoke ...
They were quite up front about it. - LightSpeed4, on 05/04/2008, -2/+6Actually shareholders do own yahoo, isnt that the whole point of shares?
- swab, on 05/04/2008, -2/+6Am I the only one how detests being referred to as a consumer? First and foremost, I am a person, a human being. Consumer sounds like a term invented by soulless bean counters. I have more than just economic value!
- Dantetheinferno, on 05/04/2008, -1/+4Google, Microsoft, Yahoo...
Only one thing is missing. Mattresses. Is that what I'm getting? - Charlotte_Web, on 05/04/2008, -3/+6go back to Slashdot
- Lionhart, on 05/04/2008, -5/+7Consumers? Unless you are buying advertising, what are you buying from google?
- Stonekeeper, on 05/05/2008, -0/+2i agree, but to big businesses, that's exactly what you are.
- Cornrider, on 05/04/2008, -0/+2My English is not that great but... is the title of this article correct?
- wiretapped, on 05/04/2008, -3/+5Maybe Google paid Yahoo secretly a large sum of money to get them to knock back Microsoft?
- inactive, on 05/04/2008, -2/+4you know msft is a massive advertising company in addition to a software company, right? they handle all the advertising on all the windows live and msn sites as well as sites like msnbc, cnbc, facebook, digg etc..
- LightSpeed4, on 05/04/2008, -5/+7yea! ***** competition! Google fanboys dont care about competition!!!!
- TheGroje, on 05/04/2008, -0/+1Hrm. YHOO closes at $19.18 on 1/31. MSFT makes their offer, and YHOO closes at $28.38 on 2/1... It's going to be fun to watch their stock tomorrow. In that "glad I don't own any" sense of the word "fun".
- Lazydriver, on 05/04/2008, -0/+1This is true.
- inactive, on 05/04/2008, -1/+2"Maybe it wasn't even that much of a secret" Of course, it was not.
Why would Yahoo! ever want to be taken over by MS? Why? I have been saying since day one that the deal would not go through. And who is right now?
I can't believe how many morons contribute to digg. Yes, all you who dugg me down. You are pathetic morons! And it's official now! - inactive, on 05/04/2008, -0/+1Damn old article is damn old... a worn out meme for a worn out article.
- OBKenobi, on 05/05/2008, -0/+1ABC News: Why I don't watch it.
- dacheetah, on 05/04/2008, -1/+2Google are currently making about one quarter as much as microsoft, and are getting closer every year. Google is also much younger than microsoft, and still has a long way to come. Given that at the moment, most people love google (free=good) and hate microsoft (windows is evil, but unavoidable), and that at the moment most of googles services are free. I can certainly see them catching up without finding "black gold".
- sndream, on 05/04/2008, -4/+5Yeah, Yahoo merge with AOL definite a good idea. Any thing AOL touch died, the only thing that survived the AOL's hand of death are Time Warner, but it destroyed so much shareholder value I don't even brother to calculate it.
- inactive, on 05/04/2008, -1/+2Not really. Google is a giant compared to MS and Yahoo and so there is no competition. At least if MS and Yahoo combined there would be some chance.
- dryerbuzz, on 05/05/2008, -0/+1ok brain [google], how do you want to take over the world today. It's pinky and the brian....everybody sing.
- louiebaur, on 05/04/2008, -4/+5Winner = Google
- michellemarion, on 05/05/2008, -0/+1This story is almost one month old!
- Stonekeeper, on 05/05/2008, -0/+1I'd rather have a benelovent dictator than a fascist dictator.
- sgtpppr, on 05/04/2008, -1/+2...and working 16 hour days.
- oldcyborg, on 05/05/2008, -0/+1This is, was, a no win situation, not even for stockholders..... let it go. we need the competition....
cyborg - int19h, on 05/05/2008, -0/+1Google isn't free when they are advertising. Windows is avoidable.
- polko, on 05/07/2008, -0/+1google- the secret winner behind everything!
- ecarver530, on 05/04/2008, -2/+2reminds me of the current election race:
obama vs. clinton, winner is mccain? - Dantetheinferno, on 05/04/2008, -1/+1He uses many large words, most of them feebly.
- sgtpppr, on 05/04/2008, -3/+3Well, they need to put together a decent search engine so they can use their advertising experience to make something to rival Google's Adwords. Right now, there isn't enough traffic to MSN to justify spending advertising budget there. startswithone1 was trying to say they need to stop doing a half-ass job with their search engine and focus the effort on something they're good at. Whether it's Windows or their advertising branch...they need to shift some man power away from MSN if they're not going to actually put up enough competition with Google to even be relevant.
- mikephimikephi, on 05/04/2008, -1/+1pft
2 of the paragraphs have 3 lines in them. I'm sure if the author tried a little harder he could have split them into smaller pieces.
Since when does a sentence double as a paragraph anyway? - inactive, on 05/05/2008, -0/+0i think even more than that
- nynexla, on 05/12/2008, -0/+0shutup
- inactive, on 05/05/2008, -0/+0may be yahoo and MS both shud combine to give a better competition, otherwise google is playing good
- Nhmarine, on 05/04/2008, -4/+4From the midst of a struggle of any kind the neutral party is always the winner. One example: Google pwning microsoft.
- Twinnie, on 05/04/2008, -2/+1Microsoft is the winner in this, Google's a household name for search now and all Microsoft has backing up their search engine is that it's the default when people first use IE. Microsoft and Yahoo are both losing to Google and combining two second tier products just makes a bigger second tier product.
- inactive, on 05/04/2008, -1/+0Microsoft dropped the bid.
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