Yahoo partners with Google
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If this survives anti-trust and if revenue is improved then this will keep Yahoo alive a litte longer. If not then I'm sure Microsoft will be happy to pick up a slightly used ex-online giant at fire sale rates. I wish I knew why Yahoo was so against Microsoft yet happy to hand over the family jewels to Google.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
Umm, do you know what family jewels[^] means? :~
Cheers, Vikram.
The hands that help are holier than the lips that pray.
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If this survives anti-trust and if revenue is improved then this will keep Yahoo alive a litte longer. If not then I'm sure Microsoft will be happy to pick up a slightly used ex-online giant at fire sale rates. I wish I knew why Yahoo was so against Microsoft yet happy to hand over the family jewels to Google.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
Chris Maunder wrote:
I wish I knew why Yahoo was so against Microsoft yet happy to hand over the family jewels to Google.
Because MS is the great Satan and Google is still the cool new kid on the block. :)
Kevin
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http://money.cnn.com/2008/06/12/technology/yahoo_google.ap/index.htm?postversion=2008061218[^] :wtf: :wtf: :wtf: :wtf: :wtf:
Yahoo always used to use Google's search results back when Yahoo was a web directory rather than a search engine
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If this survives anti-trust and if revenue is improved then this will keep Yahoo alive a litte longer. If not then I'm sure Microsoft will be happy to pick up a slightly used ex-online giant at fire sale rates. I wish I knew why Yahoo was so against Microsoft yet happy to hand over the family jewels to Google.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
Chris Maunder wrote:
I wish I knew why Yahoo was so against Microsoft
Because Jerry Yang doesn't want to go down in history as someone who sold out to the big bad Microsoft.
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http://money.cnn.com/2008/06/12/technology/yahoo_google.ap/index.htm?postversion=2008061218[^] :wtf: :wtf: :wtf: :wtf: :wtf:
That sounds so much like Yahoo being placed on life support.
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If this survives anti-trust and if revenue is improved then this will keep Yahoo alive a litte longer. If not then I'm sure Microsoft will be happy to pick up a slightly used ex-online giant at fire sale rates. I wish I knew why Yahoo was so against Microsoft yet happy to hand over the family jewels to Google.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote:
I wish I knew why Yahoo was so against Microsoft
Because Jerry Yang doesn't want to go down in history as someone who sold out to the big bad Microsoft.
Bingo. Oh. And many of the employees too.
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Fernando A. Gomez F. wrote:
At least he achieved immortality for a few years.
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If this survives anti-trust and if revenue is improved then this will keep Yahoo alive a litte longer. If not then I'm sure Microsoft will be happy to pick up a slightly used ex-online giant at fire sale rates. I wish I knew why Yahoo was so against Microsoft yet happy to hand over the family jewels to Google.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
Chris Maunder wrote:
I wish I knew why Yahoo was so against Microsoft yet happy to hand over the family jewels to Google.
Jerry Yang and many Yahoo! employees. It may be irrational but there you go. If I had to choose then I'd also choose Google, mainly from a technology viewpoint not a moral/ethical/religious/cultural viewpoint. But hopefully nobody has to choose, it isn't a good fit for anyone either way.
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Fernando A. Gomez F. wrote:
At least he achieved immortality for a few years.
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Umm, do you know what family jewels[^] means? :~
Cheers, Vikram.
The hands that help are holier than the lips that pray.
You liked my double entendre then (remember: I'm an Aussie ;))
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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http://money.cnn.com/2008/06/12/technology/yahoo_google.ap/index.htm?postversion=2008061218[^] :wtf: :wtf: :wtf: :wtf: :wtf:
This whole deal was probably initiated by Google, in order to fend off future MS takeover bids. It's a win/win for both but especially for Google, since it won't have to worry about MS growing in search percentage. I think deep down Google fears MS and is trying to ensure that they are not steamrolled by MS eventually. And MS could do it by buying bits and pieces of other search engines and then using only the best of best functions coupled with some of the smartest web people in the world under their employ. Plus Google is not all that, it still returns tons of useless crap… Once someone masters the filtering of pertinent links, it will be a whole new game. Google also knows if their technology ever passed to the wrong hands it could end their supremacy. I'm sure they guard their internals like gold and probably only a select few know all the details on how it all works. I've learned no matter how much money a person has, they enjoy getting richer, if that means selling Google technology secrets to other companies, it could be very lucrative for someone. And a company like MS could easily afford the hardware costs associated with tackling a replication of Google scope once they had basis of the software side.
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http://money.cnn.com/2008/06/12/technology/yahoo_google.ap/index.htm?postversion=2008061218[^] :wtf: :wtf: :wtf: :wtf: :wtf:
I am still in wonder why people think Google is such a "good" company and cannot do any evil. Reminds me back seven years ago when I was in Ohio paying $0.78 per gallon for fuel wondering how it got back under the one dollar mark, as the market was loaded with SUV and BIG truck sales.. Guess we know how that story ended. I think the Google map will be the same type of road.. It is the taste of being had!
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