Official Google Blog: Ending our agreement with Yahoo

Posted by Anon84 on Wednesday November 05, 2008 @10:30AM
from the googleblog.blogspot.com dept.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/ending-our-agreement-with-yahoo.html

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Re:Official Google Blog: Ending our agreement with Yahoo by aaronblohowiak on Wednesday November 05, 2008 @12:22PM (#354695)

YHOO: 14.21 +0.86 (6.44%) GOOG: 350.61 -16.33 (-4.45%)

Interesting.

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Re:Official Google Blog: Ending our agreement with Yahoo by babyshake on Wednesday November 05, 2008 @05:27PM (#355076)

I think that market is predicting an acquisition...

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Re:Official Google Blog: Ending our agreement with Yahoo by kwamenum86 on Wednesday November 05, 2008 @11:43PM (#355368)

The microsoft-yahoo-google saga/soap opera continues

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Re:Official Google Blog: Ending our agreement with Yahoo by bigthboy on Wednesday November 05, 2008 @01:21PM (#354759)

I wonder who got the better end of THAT deal...

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Re:Official Google Blog: Ending our agreement with Yahoo by a-priori on Wednesday November 05, 2008 @05:03PM (#355037)

Anyone else notice his title: "David Drummond, Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer"?

Does that not sound like a very unusual combination of roles?

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Re:Official Google Blog: Ending our agreement with Yahoo by umangjaipuria on Wednesday November 05, 2008 @01:11PM (#354744)

Reading between the lines, does this mean: We are scared that pursuing this "legal battle" might open up a can of worms we'd rather keep under the covers?

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Re:Official Google Blog: Ending our agreement with Yahoo by DougBTX on Wednesday November 05, 2008 @07:59PM (#355234)

I read it as, "now that MS has backed off from Yahoo, we can can this deal and blame it on the lawyers."

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Re:Official Google Blog: Ending our agreement with Yahoo by Herring on Wednesday November 05, 2008 @01:03PM (#354741)

Is this the new corporate speak? Because it seems remarkably lucid, am I missing something?

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Re:Official Google Blog: Ending our agreement with Yahoo by redorb on Thursday November 06, 2008 @01:13AM (#355421)

what's all this talk of 'partners' is the reffering to their adwords customers?

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Re:Official Google Blog: Ending our agreement with Yahoo by p0ltergeist on Wednesday November 05, 2008 @07:53PM (#355224)

it was never going to go through anyway, smart of them to cut their losses

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