Comments on: Microsoft Withdraws its Offer for Yahoo

By: Damir

Damir — Thu, 08 May 2008 08:10:22 +0000

Good News for Yahoo for sure is that the End – time will tell

By: Greg Nelson

Greg Nelson — Mon, 05 May 2008 01:53:00 +0000

I can tell you from a publisher standpoint…and buying PPC ads to monetize (arbitrage), a Yahoo, MSN merger on just the PPC piece (Yahoo SM + AdCenter) would have been great. Panama is clunky and so is AdCenter, but it is much easier to work with one piece of clunk rather than 2. That said, we make higher margins due to differences between the 2, but limit overall exposure due to clunkiness of rolling out on both platforms.

As a company that buys over $125k each month in PPC ads (Gooogle, Yahoo and MSN) I am disappointed the merger did not happen, but think MSFT was wise in pulling out.

By: Steve M

Steve M — Mon, 05 May 2008 01:44:24 +0000

If that were to happen, I see what you mean.

I believe, however, that the US govt will not allow any meaningful size expansion of this “test relationship” between the two…and Microsoft will no doubt be banging the Feds doors down on such a move as well.

By: admin

admin — Sun, 04 May 2008 14:53:58 +0000

Steve

Very bad news for us all.

Now it seems Yahoo will try to form a partnership with Google, following the 2 week test it recently completed leaving domainers and advertisers with only one option.

This is the next big fight for the ICA.

One that will effect every domainer

By: Steve M

Steve M — Sun, 04 May 2008 14:23:36 +0000

Whoo-hoo.

Great news for us all; and congrats to everyone at Yahoo.