Hey Microsoft, How ’bout We Do That First Deal You Offered?

[TheWatcher]

The devil is in the details, and the details of the Yahoo-Google search advertising deal reveal the desperate, possibly neurotic state of Yahoo these days. Quite simply, it looks to me like Yahoo is effectively paying Google off to step in and (1) keep Jerry Yang, Sue Decker and the current board of directors in power, and (2) avoid a desperation deal with Microsoft for as long as possible, or longer.

Source: http://my.king.net/2008/06/hey-microsoft-how-bout-we-do-that-first.html

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[Name Trader]

I've never subscribed to the business model of getting into bed with your monopoly (79%) partner when you are the weak partner (9%). Also offering them $250M if the agreement is terminated, smacks of being a poison pill to me. Everything about the deal is insane, imho. Done for short-term gain and long-term suicide. Whatever the spin they try to put on it.

 

[TheWatcher]

It's a suicide deal IMHO.