Microsoft Bids $44.6 Billion for Yahoo

[domainerph]

Microsoft Bids $44.6 Billion for Yahoo - good for us?

This is good for us?

 

[Kenny]

http://money.cnn.com/2008/02/01/technology/microsoft_yahoo/index.htm?cnn=yes

 

[Keynes]

This is both good and bad news: improved scale in the PPC market will facilitate higher bids, although growing market concentration also reduces consumer (or small business) power. Microsoft: don't be evil. Please.

 

[domainerph]

Interesting insight Keynes.

 

[hostingsearch]

I don't like Microsoft. so it's bad for me

 

[tristanperry]

More fierce competition will bring prices down (or will increase our PPC revenue). Maybe.

 

[estibot.com]

This is just pure speculation, but here are some of the potential risks I see in this deal:

The number of major portals goes down to 2, which means less choices for the consumers, and less search engines to find our sites. Some of my sites do well in Google, some in Yahoo, some in Live, I like the way the different search engines balance the market.

Major search portals going down to 2, should be bad news for type-in domains. The more power the mega portals gain, the more people will use them to find internet content, the less type-ins.

Plus more market share for Microsoft, known for its bully tactics, buggy software and lack of user-friendliness. Bad news for everyone....


....except Yahoo stockholders! Up 62% in a day, that should give a nice warm feeling..

 

[Kate]

Micro$oft IS evil :p

 

[RogueWriter]

I do well in both yahoo and msn search engines, more so than google, so I'd like everything to keep on the way it is. Well, okay, I would like google to pull a brain fart and go bankrupt, but other than that....

 

[sOliver]

today is a day I want to have a timemachine to go back 1 day and invest everything into stocks

 

[Malaysia]

well i think ppc will drop wif less competition

 

[cache]

if ms does not buy yahoo, yahoo may continue shrink

 

[tdm300]

Who knows if the deal will go through? It might not get through regulators. Both microsoft and yahoo are big companies. Personally, i hope the deal does not go through. I like yahoo the way it is.

 

[skylineleong]

Not good