Comments on: Oow, Eew, Ouch…Yahoo!

By: News Flash: Google Was Never Yahoo’s Friend - GigaOM

News Flash: Google Was Never Yahoo’s Friend - GigaOM — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:00:05 +0000

[...] Yahoo into inactivity. Did anyone actually believe that this deal was going to sail through? I sure didn’t. But apparently, in their desire to save themselves from Microsoft, Yahoo forgot that the guys in [...]

By: Vectorpedia

Vectorpedia — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 11:47:55 +0000

Who knows………Microsoft may still take over Yahoo………….time will tell

By: Should Regulators Block Google-Yahoo Deal? - GigaOM

Should Regulators Block Google-Yahoo Deal? - GigaOM — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 15:29:49 +0000

[...] I wonder if this story and Google’s challenges are meant to portray the search-and-online advertising giant as an underdog and win it some sympathy from regulators as it goes in to get its advertising deal with Yahoo approved. As a great counterpoint to the WSJ report, I urge you to read this spectacular and refreshingly honest editorial by Richard Bennett in today’s San Francisco Chronicle. Bennett correctly points out that Google is using the Net Neutrality debate to divert attention from the real issue of how it is going to become the tyrant of online advertising. Despite its carefully crafted public image as a naive and squeaky-clean innovator, Google is a public corporation managed by professionals, some of them longtime friends of Washington power brokers and fully capable of understanding the problems the Google-Yahoo deal poses. [...]

By: Should Regulators Block Google-Yahoo Deal? - GigaOM

Should Regulators Block Google-Yahoo Deal? - GigaOM — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 15:29:49 +0000

By: Gossip Guys: The Microsoft-Yahoo Saga - GigaOM

Gossip Guys: The Microsoft-Yahoo Saga - GigaOM — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:53:14 +0000

[...] like, some kind of assurance that Yang and Co. aren’t going to go screw things up. And in the last attempts, he just didn’t get that, ya know? So Ballmer just HAD to walk away, right? But with a [...]

By: Microsoft, Here’s The Top 17 Ways To Screw Up Your Next Windows OS

Microsoft, Here’s The Top 17 Ways To Screw Up Your Next Windows OS — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 11:00:00 +0000

[...] grandpa used to say: If you can’t beat ‘em, buy ‘em. While talks with Yahoo are going nowhere, but one thing is for certain. Internet Explorer is nothing compared to Firefox. You are loosing [...]

By: Tim

Tim — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 21:11:00 +0000

Yahoo! is in a predicament familiar to far too many publicly-traded companies - a good company with good products, which is profitable, forced into actions they don't really need to take by the voracious appetite of stock speculation.

The company is profitable, and as many have said, has good products and has sometimes been innovative. If they were a private company their investors would be making pretty good money. It's purely and simply about the stock price for too many people.

By: Microsoft Doesn’t Want Your App Startup - GigaOM

Microsoft Doesn’t Want Your App Startup - GigaOM — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:45:18 +0000

[...] Ballmer said he wouldn’t be looking to pick up any other Internet companies just because the Yahoo deal failed. One can only imagine how far shares of Facebook would have plummeted on that comment had the [...]

By: In Valley, Changing Of The Guard - GigaOM

In Valley, Changing Of The Guard - GigaOM — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:03:29 +0000

[...] out of dodge, continuing a Yahoo executive exodus that started nearly two years ago but went unnoticed. The only organization more dysfunctional than Yahoo – New York Mets. My two cents – Jerry should [...]

By: Ruben Zevallos Jr.

Ruben Zevallos Jr. — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:01:33 +0000

I was happy because if Microsoft close that deal, the Advertising marketing will have two big players and we publishers and advertisiers, will have more advantage… now, I think Google will continue rule and us… I don’t know… I hope, after this bad result, Yahoo call MS to talk… and I think… Yahoo now is cheaper…

By: Yahoo Employees leaving but keep Yahoo Jobs Ads running by Elias Kai Search Marketing Consultant Blog

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 21:44:56 +0000

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By: Yahoo and Importance of Business at Scale « Life in the San Francisco Startup Lane

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 20:18:40 +0000

[...] of something as fundamental as business at scale at this stage of Yahoo’s company history for many is [...]

By: Yahoo and Google: Wise Move or Beginning of the End?

Yahoo and Google: Wise Move or Beginning of the End? — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 20:18:15 +0000

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By: Steve M

Steve M — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 20:09:34 +0000

Om; though relevant it be to the subject at hand; please excuse the self-promotion, but I've got something that really could help out a company and group of employees that I've always thought very highly of...

...they could either utilize their existing search box, or place another "match" box below the current one, and enable product + service matches based on people's demographics; i.e. we'd simply enter criteria along the lines of:

male + married + $75k/yr (income/yr) + 3 kids + homeowner + 90210 + plasma TV

Would put paid search to shame.

Pending patent 11/250,908 has complete details.

By: Apogee Weblog

Apogee Weblog — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:37:09 +0000

YHOO GOOG - MSFT = GOOG...

So, Yahoo (YHOO) chose to do a deal with Google (GOOG) and rejected Microsoft (MSFT). Bottom line: Google extends their paid search hegemony......

By: Yahoo's dark day - Top Stocks

Yahoo's dark day - Top Stocks — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:07:42 +0000

[...] a viable search advertising product and Google as the only search advertising game in town.” Om Malik thinks Yahoo has made a critical blunder and has lost its way. Antitrust officials will surely be [...]