Comments on: Time for a Yahoo Microsoft Search Partnership

By: Ronald Redito

Ronald Redito — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 01:43:44 +0000

Google is no doubt the number 1 search engine in the world today. Because of this Yahoo and MSN have tried their best to beat the Big G for several years. And now, their solution is merger. There will be a big impact but I guess they will need more efforts because I think their combined market share is still less than Google’s.

By: Vaughn

Vaughn — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 11:13:09 +0000

Competition is always a good thing. The more important thing is a quality product ie. SE integrity.

By: Patricia Skinner

Patricia Skinner — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 08:54:42 +0000

I agree with Bob: Google needs some serious competition to keep it in check. We also need a fresh horizon in search.

By: Bob Dunning

Bob Dunning — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 05:55:20 +0000

I hope so. Google is just way too powerful. We need a stronger competitor asap.

By: Market Born

Market Born — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:57:18 +0000

I am not sure but I have this weird feeling that to start with google might benefit form the deal as well. Say ‘x’ number of users use yahoo because they don’t like google of microsoft. Now that google merges with microsoft those who have a lesser liking for microsoft will then switch over to google. So we can safely assume some % of ‘x’ will move over to google. Any ideas?

By: Nick Stamoulis

Nick Stamoulis — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:59:15 +0000

I don’t know what is taking them so long. We all know that eventually they will have to combine forces in order to be a real threat to Google. Lets just get on with it already.

By: Gidseo

Gidseo — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:54:49 +0000

One should never underestimate Yahoo’s ability to mess up a profitable deal for it’s shareholders!