Comments on: Done Deal: Yahoo Gives Microsoft Its Search Business

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By: Carto

Carto — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 06:50:31 +0000

Let’s see. Who will be the winner, Yahoo+Microsoft or Google inc.
Google now has become very popular in almost every country in the world.

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Blog fte » Goodbye Yahoo Search — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 17:46:41 +0000

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The Domain Space Reacts To Microsoft-Yahoo Deal | Domains News — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 11:34:03 +0000

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By: Doctor

Doctor — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 08:13:42 +0000

This is end of Yahoo. It will slowly bleed to death.

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By: thomas crown

thomas crown — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 20:11:13 +0000

This is a major advancement in searching on the internet…

By: Rob Sequin

Rob Sequin — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:30:45 +0000

Here’s Balmer’s own words:

“The more queries you see, the more you can tune your product,” he said. “The more scale you have, the more relevant you make ads for users.” Economically, Ballmer said the partnership “creates an immediate possibility for synergy.” Because there will be more bidders in the marketplace, bid prices should be higher, he said, and Microsoft should be able to better monetize its search business.

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Notice he didn’t mention how important relevant search results are or how much money or how many engineers they will commit to making Bing a better search engine.

Yahoo is hiring salespeople instead of engineers now. They better be good salespeople because they will be selling a piece of crap product and EVERYONE will know that… Yahoo salespeople, advertisers and search engine users.

Ballmer is whoring out Bing and Yahoo trying to get Google level revenue.

IT AIN’T GONNA HAPPEN.

People aren’t visiting to Bing to find advertisers. Balmer just wants their money. He doesn’t want their respect. Same with Microsoft products. He just wants the money. He doesn’t care if Microsoft products suck so long as people are basically forced to use them. Now that he has Yahoo, people are “forced” to use Bing. That’s pure Balmer and that’s BAD for Yahoo.

This partnership is just one more step down the ladder for Yahoo.

Yahoo/Bing partnership is about as interesting as a GM/Chrysler partnership.

The resulting product will still suck.

By: MHB

MHB — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 12:56:38 +0000

UPDATE

Interview with the CEo’s of Microsoft and Yahoo on this deal:

ttp://brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2009/07/30/interview-with-bartz-and-ballmer-on-the-yahoomicrosoft-search-pact/