Yahoo Goes Scorched Earth

Re:Yahoo Goes Scorched Earth by apgwoz on Thursday April 10, 2008 @07:08AM (#159803)

He's got a point when he says, "But the health of the Internet demands a counter balance to Google. Yahoo-Microsoft, given the current state of things, is the only reasonable outcome."

I'm not one to much like Microsoft, but they are starting to come to market with decent web products. Combine Microsoft and Yahoo and you've got a pretty big web powerhouse that has a _chance_ at giving Google a run for it's money. That is unless, like the article said, all of Yahoo's top people find new jobs.

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Re:Yahoo Goes Scorched Earth by Xichekolas on Thursday April 10, 2008 @11:12AM (#159943)

Thats the thing though. The vast majority of Yahoos seem to indicate that they won't work for Microsoft, even if it means a pay cut to go elsewhere. So in reality, Microsoft-Yahoo merely means Microsoft with Yahoo's domain names. Some of those are probably pretty valuable, but if Microsoft is to offer a realistic challenge to Google, it needs brilliant engineers and ideas, not domain names.

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Re:Yahoo Goes Scorched Earth by Hexstream on Thursday April 10, 2008 @02:24PM (#160167)

It's like the Triforce: if an evil one touches it, it divides into 3 parts, one goes to the evil and the rest go to more deserving souls.

Forgive me...

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