Comments on: Yahoo Should Team With Google

By: TechDuke

TechDuke — Sun, 27 May 2007 22:20:42 +0000

Webmaster needs more baskets to put their eggs. It will be disaster for webmasters if any of two giant search engines merge.

By: Peter Da Vanzo

Peter Da Vanzo — Thu, 10 May 2007 02:29:45 +0000

“remove the competition by voting with its 51% to delete paid advertising on Yahoo”

Heh heh….

By: pjy

pjy — Wed, 09 May 2007 16:24:14 +0000

Taking the Valleywag suggestion sideways, wouldn’t it be more advantageous and profitable if Google were to buy 51% (or all 100%) of Yahoo’s Pay Per Click product.

This would increase the visibility of Yahoo to average Joe searcher due to Googles interest/investment, therefore create a healthy market for all involved.

That is unless Google decided to remove the competition by voting with its 51% to delete paid advertising on Yahoo.

By: Peter Da Vanzo

Peter Da Vanzo — Wed, 09 May 2007 03:44:06 +0000

“While it does make sense economically for Yahoo and Google to join forces, I do believe and as You have pointed out it will be a disaster for small and new webmasters.”

Right.

But Google don’t care if such a move is good or bad for webmasters. Their consideration would be how much market share they could grab, and at what cost.

Also, such a move would be defensive. They’d buy it simply to stop MS doing so, thus making MS job very difficult indeed.

The problem is, of course, Yahoo would be a very expensive acquisition.

By: bilgi

bilgi — Tue, 08 May 2007 22:52:33 +0000

i dont agree with this idea. G and Y are like enemies. They are in a big and big race. The name of the race is contolling the internet

By: detoam

detoam — Tue, 08 May 2007 04:56:25 +0000

I am inclined to strongly disagree. While it does make sense economically for Yahoo and Google to join forces, I do believe and as You have pointed out it will be a disaster for small and new webmasters. They will have virtually no competition in site. That means that it actually will be a monopoly. Google as it is control pretty much the level of income a webmaster is allowed to earn because of the PR.
I, however, do not like the Idea of MS buying the Yahoo as well. While I am supporting the Microsofts claim that did not in fact create a monopoly (I would explain myself, but it would take a few pages) and I do support their tactics in business (business is business) I do think that another lawsuit against Microsoft would be more pain for the rest of us as the last one was. It obviously did not hurt them a little bit. Simply put I hope the so-called merger will be stopped.

Note to editor: please edit as You like. English is not my first language.