Thursday, April 17th 2008
Yahoo And Google To Move Ahead On Partnership
The trial Yahoo has been conducting to display Google ads in its search results has been judged a success, according to sources close to the companies, and Yahoo is set to move ahead on the partnership with its one-time biggest rival in an attempt to stave off Microsoft's $42 billion takeover offer. We mentioned on Monday that an alliance between Yahoo and Google could receive heavy criticism from US and EU competition regulators, both companies are now working on a solution. Perhaps such a solution would be to only allow Google to serve ads in certain categories or regions. Even though this would limit the cash flow boost to Yahoo, the company would still come out significantly richer in the end, perhaps by as much as $500 million a year. Yahoo is also in talks with AOL over a merger to further increase its cash flow.
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34 Comments on Yahoo And Google To Move Ahead On Partnership
I f'ing hate aol!! :slap:
it is kinda funny how yahoo said f u to ms were are going with google...that makes me laugh
On another note, I lost all respect I ever had for Yahoo for trying to merge with GayOL.
never really used ask...after it changed from askjeeves.
idk, to me its just, with MSN and yahoo and all those other engines they have 53458425463876345364 advertisements and stories and all this crap everywhere.
but you go to google and its a simple text box to type what you want. its simple.
Other notable examples of favorable monopolies were those that used to exist in the oil industry (about a hundred years ago), airline industry and the telephone industry.
However, there comes a time after a technology has matured and become standardized that a monopoly needs to be broken up in order to ensure that one company doesn't begin to abuse its position in the marketplace -- this was done to Standard Oil back in the early 1900's, AT&T back in the 80's, and was about to be done to Microsoft in the late 90's (before the Bush Administration came to power in the US and rescinded that order).
Now, Google's work in standardizing social networks (through OpenSocial) and their initial attempts at offering a standardized platform for cell phone development (through Android) are a blessing to developers, and are definitely positive ways to insure that innovation remains active.
A Google-Yahoo merging wouldn't be the worst thing in the world, and would actually benefit a lot of people, by way of developers, coders, and administrators having an easier time managing the Internet, for instance.
... at least for the first 10 years or so (or whenever we can all agree that the Internet has stabilized), when they would be split up and ordered to form separate companies again and the cycle of innovation can continue.
any way back on topic it kinda makes me wonder if google will be the next M$ in terms of anti trust suits (i think thats what they are called)