Comments on: Privacy Groups Ready to Oppose Microsoft Takeover of Yahoo

By: Xman

Xman — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:57:34 +0000

Microsoft is almost everything on the desktop side. Yahoo is almost everything on the online service side(such as Yahoo Mail, Yahoo Messenger, Yahoo Personals, and Yahoo Groups, Yahoo hotjobs…). Wake up your guys, one everything combined with another will be a horrible thing, plus the M$’s ussual atitude toward competitors. The day MS acqured Yahoo is the end of the world.

I would suggest that we stand up and organized to form an anti-MS-takeover-Yahoo group somewhere in yahoo or google group, so we can better stop the avaricious M$

By: David Marx - Search Engine Optimization

David Marx - Search Engine Optimization — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 16:43:35 +0000

Mr Honda Man, can’t agree with you more. MSN is obviously a failure if they’re bidding on yahoo, but methinks google is too big for microsoft to try chew on….

By: CBR

CBR — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 06:47:27 +0000

I hope it does not upset the balance, you know what they say better the devil you know. Yahoo needs a lot of work to bridge the gap on search if they ever can. Google is now part of the english language which is quite an achievement don’t you think.

By: Gabriel Gervelis

Gabriel Gervelis — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 04:55:11 +0000

What about MSN.com. To me, this just shows that after all of the re-branding and tweaking of LIVE search, they still cant get it right. Dont get me wrong, i love the low CPC that Live offers, but such little traffic comes my way.

I have a feeling that if they cant get Yahoo, they might turn to Google…..That would be fun.

By: Jacques Snyman for SEO Results

Jacques Snyman for SEO Results — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 04:44:38 +0000

Talking about privacy issues, current stats suggest that one in five job applicants are being checked out on the internet. Lets face it, if you want to be a naughty rebel it doesn’t help your cause but openly proclaiming your stance on social media platforms like facebook & myspace.

Yahoo is the main rival to google, and this merger will see the stakes being raised, with the consumer the ultimate beneficiary from the competition between these two search engine entities.

Am interested to see where this goes…

By: Jack Humphrey

Jack Humphrey — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 18:42:40 +0000

Hagrin,

Like you, I’m just in it for the traffic. I see you posted your “take” on your blog lol.

Every mention of it, pro, con, or con against MENTIONING it, gets people traffic.

I do like your “let it play” attitude. There’s absolutely nothing new to fear here and reading that privacy groups are up in arms had me scratching my head for the same reasons.

We don’t need Google to acquire Yahoo for there to be millions of privacy issues to worry about.

Why pay $44 billion for private information you can get for free at MySpace?

By: Hagrin

Hagrin — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 16:05:02 +0000

Ridiculous.

If you are already using the Internet, you’re already facing all of these privacy issues. If you use Gmail, Google Checkout, Orkut, Coop, Base, Webmaster Central, Blogger, etc., you’re facing these same issues so where exactly is this “new” privacy concern. Not to mention, while not overly successful in the “online space”, MSFT already has properties online and would only be expanding their user base – again, not introducing NEW privacy concerns, just increasing their userbase.

I can’t wait till I can 30 seconds without reading another take on this bid.