Yahoo's market cap right now is hoovering around $16B. So Microsoft wants to pay $20B for their search business?
Microsoft is in talks to acquire Yahoo’s online search business for $20 billion
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#12http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/11/29/reports-of-new-microsof...
This is a false story.
Re: Microsoft is in talks to acquire Yahoo’s online search business for $20 billion
#13It is logical. Search is where the money is at.
For me the biggest business mystery in the world is why the adsense/adword model was not exactly copied ASAP by Yahoo, since that was making billions to your direct competitor.
Re: Microsoft is in talks to acquire Yahoo’s online search business for $20 billion
#14This will be good news for Yahoo, because Yahoo has the problem of being spread across all of the most competitive fields on the net - search, portal, email, video, sports. Taking away one part of this, frees yahoo up to focus on evolving the web instead of trying to battle the giants. Microsoft is huge - it has the resources to tackle google on search. Let the two titans fight it out, and let yahoo go back to being…
> Microsoft is huge - it has the resources to tackle google on search.
What exactly do you mean by "tackle"? Microsoft has enough software engineers, but they don't have enough time and search data to catch up. Google has enormous log files from user's search behaviour and experience battling search spammers. And this is what Microsoft is lacking and cannot buy.