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Google winner as Microsoft and Yahoo face off

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Reuters; By Daisuke Wakabayashi 		Mail this story
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Not much has progressed since Microsoft offered to buy Yahoo on February 1, a proposal that was rebuffed by Yahoo's board as undervaluing the company. Microsoft has countered by saying its offer was fair and urged the board to take a second look. The union of its two biggest Web rivals could eventually loosen Google's grip on online search and advertising, but a messy takeover battle followed by a complicated integration could give Google ample time to build on its advantage.

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Comments (7)

tuxchick ·
Both Yahoo and Microsoft's online services are in trouble, and I don't see that joining two separate troubles into one big one is going to make anything but a bigger trouble.
Bob_Robertson ·
Saddling Yahoo with MSN's well-known biased results will only make Yahoo fall even faster into irrelevancy.

As someone else has mentioned, the only reason MSN still gets "large" numbers of hits is because it's the default one gets without altering I.E., and when one logs out of Hotmail.

The telling point is that Microsoft would have to go into debt to make the purchase. That tells me that MS is getting desperate.

Yahoo's rejection was good for everyone. It saved MS face, presents a "strong" Yahoo, and still buggers the deal.
Sander_Marechal ·
Bob: Try telling the Yahoo shareholders that. They've started an array of lawsuits (now combined in a class action lawsuit) against the Yahoo board for rejecting the deal.
Bob_Robertson ·
Hahaha! So they didn't take a vote first?

That was a big mistake. I didn't think they were that stupid.
Sander_Marechal ·
I guess not. The article I read didn't say anything about that.
jezuch ·
Hm, the shareholders can sue the company, but can someone sue the shareholders?
ColonelPanik ·
m$ wants control m$ shareholders want $$$ Yahoo shareholders want $$$ Yahoo BofD wants to be the funky interweb company that it isn't.

The two FOSS browsers I have used are okay but not great: http://alpha.search.wikia.com/ and one that was Debian based and is no longer with us.

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