Comments on: Yahoo Says No: Genius or Suicide? http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/02/10/yahoo-says-no-genius-or-suicide/ News, opinion, and fresh thinking for web developers and designers. The official podcast of sitepoint.com. Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:39:36 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Drky http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/02/10/yahoo-says-no-genius-or-suicide/comment-page-1/#comment-637010 Drky Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:18:44 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/02/10/yahoo-says-no-genius-or-suicide/#comment-637010 Anonymous, Yahoo is an amazing search engine, but people use Google more than them. There are things Yahoo does better where people opt to use the competitors' products. Microsoft and Google are both powerhouses. Microsoft is established with a conglomerate of products, Google really isn't as much. Yahoo is centralized in its offerings (with the exception of all its acquisitions), though one can argue that it is still centralized to the internet. Whats to say that Microsoft wouldn't maintain Yahoo's existing culture, even adopt Yahoo's search technology as their own and scrap their proprietary search system? Anonymous, Yahoo is an amazing search engine, but people use Google more than them. There are things Yahoo does better where people opt to use the competitors’ products. Microsoft and Google are both powerhouses. Microsoft is established with a conglomerate of products, Google really isn’t as much. Yahoo is centralized in its offerings (with the exception of all its acquisitions), though one can argue that it is still centralized to the internet.

Whats to say that Microsoft wouldn’t maintain Yahoo’s existing culture, even adopt Yahoo’s search technology as their own and scrap their proprietary search system?

]]> By: Drky http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/02/10/yahoo-says-no-genius-or-suicide/comment-page-1/#comment-637007 Drky Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:12:52 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/02/10/yahoo-says-no-genius-or-suicide/#comment-637007 programPHP, I have read that article. Nice article. I, personally think that won't happen because Microsoft and Facebook already have a minor agreement in place. This agreement would clearly address problems such as takeovers from competing companies. Sure there may be clauses that gives Facebook the freedom to sell out to anybody, but it won't be at the likes of hampering Microsoft with the existing partnership. programPHP, I have read that article. Nice article. I, personally think that won’t happen because Microsoft and Facebook already have a minor agreement in place. This agreement would clearly address problems such as takeovers from competing companies.

Sure there may be clauses that gives Facebook the freedom to sell out to anybody, but it won’t be at the likes of hampering Microsoft with the existing partnership.

]]> By: programPHP http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/02/10/yahoo-says-no-genius-or-suicide/comment-page-1/#comment-632508 programPHP Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:43:14 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/02/10/yahoo-says-no-genius-or-suicide/#comment-632508 Pure genius Interesitng article regarding this: http://iamned.com/blog/2008/02/03/microsoft-proposes-buyout-of-yahoo-facebook-next/ Pure genius

Interesitng article regarding this:

http://iamned.com/blog/2008/02/03/microsoft-proposes-buyout-of-yahoo-facebook-next/

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/02/10/yahoo-says-no-genius-or-suicide/comment-page-1/#comment-631985 Anonymous Mon, 11 Feb 2008 06:23:54 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/02/10/yahoo-says-no-genius-or-suicide/#comment-631985 Yahoo is still a VERY PROFITABLE company. It made $205 million in profit in the Q4 2007. This notion that Yahoo isn't worth anything is absurd. They are a viable company alone. They do not need Microsoft screwing them up! Everything Microsoft touches turns to crap. I depend on Yahoo as my search engine as I find its results superior to Google's. (No sandbox, so I actually find stuff!) Microsoft has been unable to make their search engine competitive. Do we want them to run Yahoo? I say no. Yahoo is still a VERY PROFITABLE company. It made $205 million in profit in the Q4 2007. This notion that Yahoo isn’t worth anything is absurd.

They are a viable company alone. They do not need Microsoft screwing them up! Everything Microsoft touches turns to crap. I depend on Yahoo as my search engine as I find its results superior to Google’s. (No sandbox, so I actually find stuff!) Microsoft has been unable to make their search engine competitive. Do we want them to run Yahoo? I say no.

]]> By: Drky http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/02/10/yahoo-says-no-genius-or-suicide/comment-page-1/#comment-631913 Drky Mon, 11 Feb 2008 04:16:18 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/02/10/yahoo-says-no-genius-or-suicide/#comment-631913 As an employee in the financial markets, I have to say this is a good move by Microsoft. Yahoo! would be smart to accept the offer. I saw a few comments about selling out to the evil empire M$, the truth is Google has a stronghold on search, search advertisement and the advertisers (us). With a Microsoft & Yahoo! partnership we can see that stronghold be broken, thus Google's public condemnation. Though the cultures for both companies are totally different, I believe with Microsoft's current rate of improvement they'll do justice for an amazing company like Yahoo!. Its not a matter of selling out. Also, a Microsoft-Yahoo! deal has better chances of working out than a Google-Yahoo! deal. The reason being antitrust laws will see a Google-Yahoo! deal as a more evident monopoloy on the internet services market than a Microsoft-Yahoo marriage. The key factor is due to Microsoft's diversification in many different areas of technology and Google and Yahoo!'s centralization in internet. As an employee in the financial markets, I have to say this is a good move by Microsoft. Yahoo! would be smart to accept the offer. I saw a few comments about selling out to the evil empire M$, the truth is Google has a stronghold on search, search advertisement and the advertisers (us). With a Microsoft & Yahoo! partnership we can see that stronghold be broken, thus Google’s public condemnation.

Though the cultures for both companies are totally different, I believe with Microsoft’s current rate of improvement they’ll do justice for an amazing company like Yahoo!. Its not a matter of selling out.

Also, a Microsoft-Yahoo! deal has better chances of working out than a Google-Yahoo! deal. The reason being antitrust laws will see a Google-Yahoo! deal as a more evident monopoloy on the internet services market than a Microsoft-Yahoo marriage. The key factor is due to Microsoft’s diversification in many different areas of technology and Google and Yahoo!’s centralization in internet.

]]> By: paulcarey http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/02/10/yahoo-says-no-genius-or-suicide/comment-page-1/#comment-631885 paulcarey Mon, 11 Feb 2008 03:07:10 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/02/10/yahoo-says-no-genius-or-suicide/#comment-631885 yahoo to yahoo! i dread to think what m$ would do with yahoo! yahoo! offer some great services at present and my worst nightmare would be that yahoo! mail becomes anything remotely like hotmail (OK there are worse things that could happen, I suppose). But seriously yahoo! does offer great services at present without the m$ all or nothing feel, like for example yahoo!'s great Ajax ui libraries, I'll eat my hat (if i had one) the day m$ release a nice (useful) freebie like that. The day yahoo! known for its independence(at least to me) and originality as one of the webs innovators (not haters like m$ once was) is sold to the likes of monopoly giants like m$ is a sad day. I'm not a m$ hater btw if anything I admire them but in a different way to yahoo! I just dont think m$ and yahoo! would mix well if you catch my drift. yahoo to yahoo! i dread to think what m$ would do with yahoo! yahoo! offer some great services at present and my worst nightmare would be that yahoo! mail becomes anything remotely like hotmail (OK there are worse things that could happen, I suppose). But seriously yahoo! does offer great services at present without the m$ all or nothing feel, like for example yahoo!’s great Ajax ui libraries, I’ll eat my hat (if i had one) the day m$ release a nice (useful) freebie like that. The day yahoo! known for its independence(at least to me) and originality as one of the webs innovators (not haters like m$ once was) is sold to the likes of monopoly giants like m$ is a sad day. I’m not a m$ hater btw if anything I admire them but in a different way to yahoo! I just dont think m$ and yahoo! would mix well if you catch my drift.

]]> By: brothercake http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/02/10/yahoo-says-no-genius-or-suicide/comment-page-1/#comment-631770 brothercake Sun, 10 Feb 2008 23:46:26 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/02/10/yahoo-says-no-genius-or-suicide/#comment-631770 I'm no businessman, but I respect Yahoo for refusing to sell-out to the evil empire. I’m no businessman, but I respect Yahoo for refusing to sell-out to the evil empire.

]]> By: ionix5891 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/02/10/yahoo-says-no-genius-or-suicide/comment-page-1/#comment-631639 ionix5891 Sun, 10 Feb 2008 18:45:36 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/02/10/yahoo-says-no-genius-or-suicide/#comment-631639 microsoft make 20 billion <strong>profit </strong>a year thy can more than aford it whether they want to is a different story they will probably leave yahoo sink, and it will sink further than the 18$/share it was before this microsoft make 20 billion profit a year thy can more than aford it

whether they want to is a different story

they will probably leave yahoo sink, and it will sink further than the 18$/share it was before this

]]> By: XraySierra http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/02/10/yahoo-says-no-genius-or-suicide/comment-page-1/#comment-631573 XraySierra Sun, 10 Feb 2008 16:05:29 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/02/10/yahoo-says-no-genius-or-suicide/#comment-631573 I think Microsoft will do whatever it takes to acquire Yahoo! Whether or not Microsoft can afford to go into debt to finance this takeover is another story. I think Microsoft will do whatever it takes to acquire Yahoo! Whether or not Microsoft can afford to go into debt to finance this takeover is another story.

]]> By: Curt Monash http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/02/10/yahoo-says-no-genius-or-suicide/comment-page-1/#comment-631560 Curt Monash Sun, 10 Feb 2008 15:30:02 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/02/10/yahoo-says-no-genius-or-suicide/#comment-631560 Microsoft can and probably will make the deal happen with a sweetened, all-cash offer. As per http://www.texttechnologies.com/2008/02/10/microsoft-yahoo-cash-deal/ , the can easily afford the cash. As per http://www.texttechnologies.com/2008/02/03/microsoft-yahoo-synergies/ , the deal makes a lot of sense overall. CAM Microsoft can and probably will make the deal happen with a sweetened, all-cash offer. As per http://www.texttechnologies.com/2008/02/10/microsoft-yahoo-cash-deal/ , the can easily afford the cash. As per http://www.texttechnologies.com/2008/02/03/microsoft-yahoo-synergies/ , the deal makes a lot of sense overall.

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