Microsoft has asked Yahoo! to enter formal negotiations for a proposed acquisition worth about $50 billion. Something along the lines of “all your search are belong to us” or “you will be assimilated, resistance is futile” comes to mind regarding this possibility.

According to Forbes, Microsoft is behind both Google and Yahoo! in the ever growing internet search engine war and they have so far only managed to fall even more behind. Live search or MSN search aren’t exactly what you think of when to do a search, I think of Google, some think of Yahoo! but the end result is the same, no one thinks of Microsoft.

Isn’t it enough that Microsoft dominates businesses and homes with Windows XP, Vista and their Office suite but now it sees fit to dominate the search engine wars as well?

I doubt it would help them. Sure Yahoo! would then be a subsidiary of Microsoft but it is unlikely anything would change or would it. Microsoft could decide to leave Yahoo! the way it is but legally and on paper Microsoft would own them or Microsoft could send in their own management team, take over Yahoo! and once and for all ruin an internet giant.

Would it do anything other than ruin Yahoo! only if their current search engine could be used because if the Live or MSN engine were forced on them let’s just say you’d be getting nothing but irrelevant results, just like you do now.

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Entry was posted on Friday, May 4th, 2007 at 11:34 am under Internet, Microsoft.  Print This Post

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