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Microsoft and Yahoo unveil tie-up

edesignuk

edesignuk

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Yahoo and Microsoft have announced a long-rumoured internet search deal that will help the two companies take on chief rival Google.

Microsoft's search engine will power the Yahoo website and Yahoo will in turn become the advertising sales team for Microsoft's online offering.

Yahoo has been struggling to make profits in recent years.

But it rebuffed several takeover bids from Microsoft in an attempt to go it alone.

"This agreement comes with boatloads of value for Yahoo, our users, and the industry. And I believe it establishes the foundation for a new era of internet innovation and development," said Yahoo chief executive Carol Bartz.

The deal became possible after Yahoo's co-founder Jerry Yang stepped down as chief executive of the company.
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According to Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer, the deal will allow Microsoft to "create more innovation in search, better value for advertisers and real consumer choice in a market currently dominated by a single company."

And in a dig against search market leader Google (GOOG, Fortune 500), the companies said in a joint statement that "advertisers no longer have to rely on one company that dominates more than 70% of all search."
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Source: cnnmoney.com.

Future monopolists, take note:
1) When you are the dominant player, it's because you have the best solution in the market.
2) When you are not the dominant player, you worry about the lack of innovation and "real" customer choice.
 
mags631 said:
Source: cnnmoney.com.

Future monopolists, take note:
1) When you are the dominant player, it's because you have the best solution in the market.
2) When you are not the dominant player, you worry about the lack of innovation and "real" customer choice.
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Wait a minute, does that apply to Apple and Microsoft as well?
 
mags631 said:
Yes, the concept of hypocrisy also applies to Apple when they are being hypocritical.
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Apple is never Hypocritical :eek: I am interested to see what they bring, since i have heard some decent feedback on ding. I do however like google since its pretty clean, yahoo to me has a lot of noise that i chose not to leverage
 
mags631 said:
1) When you are the dominant player, it's because you have the best solution in the market.
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That is entirely incorrect. IE was a lousy browser and yet still managed to hog the market and kill Netscape, adn it wasn't because the product was superior it was because Microsoft broke the law.

You guys probably already know this, but youse can decide for yourselves, á la Coke/Pepsi Taste Test: http://blindsearch.fejus.com/?q=macrumors&type=web
 
Melrose said:
That is entirely incorrect. IE was a lousy browser and yet still managed to hog the market and kill Netscape, adn it wasn't because the product was superior it was because Microsoft broke the law.

You guys probably already know this, but youse can decide for yourselves, á la Coke/Pepsi Taste Test: http://blindsearch.fejus.com/?q=macrumors&type=web
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WOW :eek: I just did a lot of different searches, from very broad to very specific topics......and never once picked Google as my favorite set of results. Thanks for the link, very eye opening!
 
OutThere said:
WOW :eek: I just did a lot of different searches, from very broad to very specific topics......and never once picked Google as my favorite set of results. Thanks for the link, very eye opening!
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I found my choices to be pretty even for Google and Bing. I've been using Bing lately and like it much more than Google... :ashamed:

Call me silly, but I like that Bing has been designed whilst Google just looks like it's slapped together by programmers.
 
Melrose said:
That is entirely incorrect. IE was a lousy browser and yet still managed to hog the market and kill Netscape, adn it wasn't because the product was superior it was because Microsoft broke the law.
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My point was on the perceptions of a would-be monopolist, not on reality. If it's your product, you probably tell yourself and the market that the share is due to having the best product.

You guys probably already know this, but youse can decide for yourselves, á la Coke/Pepsi Taste Test: http://blindsearch.fejus.com/?q=macrumors&type=web
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On a lark, I recently tried "what is cloud computing" and Google has better search results if I expect search results to define and explain cloud computing.
 
So if this is the end result, they should've just let MS bought them when they had the chance.
 
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