MSFT-YHOO: Why this deal makes sense for Microsoft

re: MSFT-YHOO: Why this deal makes sense for Microsoft

quikboy — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:02:07 GMT

@Mephiles : Google wants a partnership. Not to exactly buy and maintain ALL of Y!'s properties.

I think Y! would bring better site design, some extra features, and a myriad of content, and partnerships, along with power sites like Y! Answer and Flickr to Microsoft.

I just think the price tag is compeletely dumb. I mean a $1 billion dollars could really help a lot for a poor African nation. Instead, it's just some excessive amounts to be given to guys who haven't really changed anything much.

re: MSFT-YHOO: Why this deal makes sense for Microsoft

Mephiles — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:07:50 GMT

You can tell Yahoo! want to be bought by Microsoft rather than Google, because they're basicly asking MS to get more money to buy them, but thry aren't asking Google that ;)

re: MSFT-YHOO: Why this deal makes sense for Microsoft

Saucey — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 14:57:40 GMT

Google hasn't completed the merger with DoubleClick yet, so DoubleClick was probably reported separately.

I wonder what the comparison is if you do Google + DoubleClick versus Microsoft + Yahoo!