Comments on: Microsoft Not Done With Yahoo, Circling For The Kill

By: Are Nokia And Microsoft Hoping Two Wrongs Make A Right?: Mobile Technology News «

Fri, 11 Feb 2011 11:11:25 +0000

[...] between the two companies. Perhaps the bullish Microsoft boss learned an important lesson from the botched attempt to buy Yahoo in 2008 — start by having somebody sympathetic at the top and you can go a lot further a lot faster. Some [...]

By: Yahoo Keeps its Enemies Closer - GigaOM

Yahoo Keeps its Enemies Closer - GigaOM — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:28:00 +0000

[...] Group and former chairman and CEO of AOL. This will settle the proxy battle begun by Icahn in the wake of Microsoft’s’s failed bids for Yahoo earlier this year and make the Aug. 1 shareholder meeting a less contentious [...]

By: ALE-Xpressed

ALE-Xpressed — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:05:54 +0000

Its true that Google won and they have now competetor far far away but the point that remains is that this is teh core business that any internet company must excell in if it plans to excel in otehr related fields. Unless you do good searching, you cant have great products. Look, all Google products are good because of their great search, they are based on them one or the other way. Take adsense, adwords whatever !

ALE-Xpressed
http://blog.ale.com.pk

By: Software Mandi

Software Mandi — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 04:56:41 +0000

Even if Microsoft gets successful to purchase Yahoo, it will still be far away from Goolge. Integration of Gmail with mail servers of corporate entities has set a new trend and a big threat for Live and Yahoo mail. MSN and Yahoo have to follow foot prints of Google

By: Microsoft busca socios para comprar Yahoo - Foros de CHW

Microsoft busca socios para comprar Yahoo - Foros de CHW — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:28:56 +0000

[...] de Yahoo sólo lo que Microsoft no quiere, como quien dice las sobras? Fuente: Wall Street Journal, GigaOm, ValleyWag. addthis_pub = [...]

By: julian

julian — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:11:57 +0000

assassination is what is going on. yahoo was fine. lumbering along minding its own business until ms started this buy out. now the media tells us daily yahoo is suddenly failing, yang is an idiot, everyone is leaving, omg. you are right it is insane. its more like watching the discovery channel then business.

yahoo is a very cool property. it is getting more and more valuable. it has one the top pages on the net and this is like early television where there was only 3 channels, nbc, cbs and abc.

ms couldn’t bring down the wildebeast by itself but it has weakened it and this has attracted others.

animal imagery aside i am rooting for jerry. i can imagine how very difficult it must be to both guide the company forward and deal with all this nonsense.

i like diversity. i hope yahoo continues as yahoo and not another part of the ms, msnbc, media empire.

By: Rick

Rick — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:18:32 +0000

A split deal flys in the face of several posts that attribute Yahoo’s attractiveness to it’s non-search assets. If MS wants only the search portion, then they leave a lot on the table.

I’m in concert with Om. He’s called this very well since inception.

By: White Eagle

White Eagle — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:14:40 +0000

It is not about ability to deliver on own, but to jump ahead by 20%.

By: Fred Kruegel

Fred Kruegel — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 09:28:33 +0000

Microsoft has less than 10% of the search market. Yahoo has 20%. Buying Yahoo’s search operations and gaining 30% of the search market is a huge difference and the right move for MS if their intention is to be a strong competitor to Google. If they’ve got the $$ why should they alternatively spend the next 3-10 years trying to prove they can innovate.

Buying just the search operations and becoming a part owner or strategic technology partner to Yahoo is also preferable to buying the whole of Yahoo.

I believe that this deal will get done and both Yahoo and AOL will eventually be using MS Live Search technology.

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 09:16:40 +0000

Its interesting to see how everyone has an opinion about yahoo these days. I’m quite taken back from the lynching mentality and the “hate” that is pouring out of the media/analyst/etc.

They may be 2nd when it comes to search, but people forget the 0.5B people they serve on the monthly basis. This range from mails, IMs, their front page portal, fantasy sports, finance, movies, etc. They are still the largest display advertising company in the world.

All i’m saying is, Yhoo is still a great company. One that is still healthy, holds its ground, churning out good products and has amazing potential. Its definitely being painted otherwise and i think its a little unfair. As a user, i’m still using their services and products, and will continue to do so for many more years to come.

By: michael_s

michael_s — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:07:04 +0000

As many have learned its a mistake to underestimate Microsoft. While Valley folks are tired of the Microsoft-Yahoo! drama we (I am a Valley folk) forget that the underlying assets are Yahoo! are significant — 100M+ Mail users, 40M+ MyYahoo! users, and 21% search share (US) in a market where the leader brand name is now a verb while it maintains a lead in other large and growth markets (Japan, Vietnam, Tawain, etc.). The issue with Yahoo! is one of management leadership — the leadership team accepts mediocrity, fails to inspire employees or investors, and is more concerned about whose up/down politics then with our products. Now — with the right management team a few extra billion dollars Yahoo! would become a serious competitive threat to Google in search and ad marketplace and would clean up in the areas of Mail, Front page, News, Sports, and Finance.

So — while 6 months of Microsoft and Yahoo! drama seems like an eternity for valley folks in the grand scheme of things this is simply a negotiation that has hit some big bumps (albeit public ones) along the way, but the Yahoo! assets are simply too valuable to just walk away from and Steve recognizes that.

By: Curtis

Curtis — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 06:12:11 +0000

Om,

I think MS is running scared. One can foresee problems with Microsoft’s current product mix eroding their near term financial performance, and they don’t have much ammo in their quiver.

As I mentioned in a post a couple weeks ago, Yahoo appears to be at the end of its’ lifecycle.

For what it is worth, I don’t think Microhoo would be a good marriage.

My $.02.

Best,

Curtis

By: Chetan Sharma

Chetan Sharma — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 05:59:29 +0000

I agree. Online Search wars are over. Google won. It is time to move on.