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March 18, 2008 10:40 AM PDT

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by Charles Cooper
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Give Yahoo management this much: they're making Microsoft work for this one.

Earlier today Yahoo pumped out a supremely confident three-year growth forecast in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. This is the company's latest maneuver in its bid to remain independent--or, failing that, fetch a much higher buyout price from Microsoft. But after paging through the document, I'm still convinced Steve Ballmer's cohorts hold the better cards.

Yahoo finance slide show

News Corp. has already shot down false rumors that it might ride to Yahoo's rescue and that doesn't leave Jerry Yang with much wiggle room in negotiations. Might Time Warner turn into a white knight? Nope. After AOL wasted $850 million to buy Bebo, that maxed out Time Warner's yearly budget for Stupid Corporate Decision Making.

Here's a link to the slide show, which actually dates back to December. Yahoo looked into its crystal ball and came back with bubbly predictions for a doubling of operating cash flow and revenue and margin results that will outstrip Wall Street's expectations. Given all that's taken place on Wall Street of late, I'm not sure how much stock anyone puts in this sort of nonsense anymore. And who was the comedian they allowed to muck with slide No. 5 which suggests Yahoo is about to transform the industry with its display ad platform?

If Yahoo had a secret weapon in the basement, what has it been doing the last three years--playing Parcheesi? Henry Blodget over at Silicon Alley Insider did the math and says the numbers put up by Yahoo would translate into a stock price between $40 and $50 a share. But as he notes, Yahoo's assumptions about search revenue growing $1.4 billion is incredibly optimistic.

"Yahoo continues to lose query share in search, and we think it is reasonable to assume that Google will eventually capture 80%-90% of global query share. Given that Google's growth rate is essentially the market growth rate, we don't see how Yahoo can expect to grow search in line with the market rate."

I'll say. What's more, Yahoo's done little to suggest it can slow down Google. Let's remember that search continues to be a faster growing business than display ads. Maybe Yahoo can squeeze a buck or two more out of Microsoft, but barring something out of left field, the endgame is approaching. (Last week we reported that the sides had finally opened up an informal channel of communication.)

The immortal technologist Lawrence Peter Berra had it right about it not being over until it's over. But Yahoo shouldn't fool itself into believing its own PR. It's over.

Charles Cooper has covered technology and business for more than 25 years. Before joining CNET News, he worked at the Associated Press, Computer & Software News, Computer Shopper, PC Week, and ZDNet. E-mail Charlie.
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by wildchild_plasma_gyro March 18, 2008 2:05 PM PDT
Going back in time
We assume our self to be at the peek of our capabilities yet ignor blatent militarial attempts to stupify and mirginalise us believing there is some economic reson for such that is acceptable. At least most of us do because its the best explaination that satisfies our mind with also commonly the poor assumption that were simply stupid and that greats like einstine spring up as if by magic.

Utter artistic psychological aristosratically ran crap.

So yes lets go back in time and ask the first question are African minds especially from some froms good at maths.

Well unless you've never socialised with African groups or walked round witha blid fold watching videos of 52 cent and other stero type dirivitives amoungst all that opression you should have found that answer to be yes.

If you have not found this answer i ask you to social recheck that.

Also one could then ask are diffent polynesian groups mathematically astute.

You will notice that you media very reare covers mathematically astute groups outside of Indian, Arabic and european groups especially as the head guys this in itself is pure racism and psychlogical discrimination hiding the truth.

If i was to talk about Nigerian or chinese maths society your mind might well be inclined to picture poorly run institutes speaking predominantly photic english copying the works written by moder european maths minds and perhaps some indians.

What would not spring to mind would be a bunch of diffrent people thinking and discovering the world for them selves mathematically and working with maths of which some of isn't even covered much if at all in the west.

Why the big facination with maths sure its the great scientific minds that make for intelligence or Engineering or economic greats i mean thats what you've been told right.

Nope infact its the mathematically minded. All concept is derived from mathematical construct and you greats just fasioned figure heads and idogramatics from wealthy classes.

So to paint a picture of strong clever nigerian or chinese maths institues is somthing interlects may revire to at least some degree especially the more poverty wise attackable notion of a clever African maths institute.

Hypothesis contiinued in the reply to this......
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by wildchild_plasma_gyro March 18, 2008 2:18 PM PDT
Ok now the past.
Before egypt there was these African proto civilisations and some proto civilisations of the far east and americas. These guys traded gold and other things and enjoyed art, maths and elegance.
Then just before the rise of kernet/Egypt a cosmological wobble occured and egypt was built to ***** this by tuning the energies of the earth and stars as for this cosmos to be learned.
At the time the Arabic Nomadic like groups were seen as Primitive cow hearders compared to the rain forest farming derived diet of the egyptian minds but they did trade a dedicated work force for building things.

Infact these guys believed religiously in perfection and overtime stole this setup and use it to try and enslave the world After developed the first militarial use of encryption (the proto arabic languages).

So instead of these Polynesian and African Fraction system works studying energies to find mathimatical form revelevance Egypt was replace with an inhospitible to Africans an polynesians world of blind religious faith in perfectionised triangulated maths which still dominates the craftmanship of the industrial world today including your amazing intel microprocessors.

The top minds moved their work to what became Maya and learned much that later was stolen and claim as being discovered by figure head with the Mayan history distorted to hide its real potency and make it look acient.

These top minds hide in the Foprest where they werent found in caves and such and developed such mastery of energy that they lightly now live under the sea bed in the millions in the most beautful by an unbelievable margin city of earth awaiting dec 21 2012
by lucasj8 March 18, 2008 3:03 PM PDT
Better spelling and coherent thoughts would improve this useless post.
by wildchild_plasma_gyro March 18, 2008 4:33 PM PDT
Cool I suppose there is no usfulness in encourgaing others to try better to get a full grasp from the whole selection of humans on this planet and their intelligence capabilities in relation to the electronic tools we use currently to find peoples effort of expression within such a world.
So yes while i agree with you that indeed my grammer and spelling need more dyxterity and tuning of mind before expressing ones viewpoint to such an extent i refute the uslessness of claiming the world full of classest intelligence thives that thry every which way and how to control your mind and perception of others intelligence.
Infact i think if you simply hero worship old albert and others without seeing the world for what it is then you can easily not progress past where these people given popularity projected their thought potential and hence by not makeing such posts and simply sitting idolly by one can quite easly stupify ones self confidence and become as you say Usless and not even attempting to complain about it.
Besides which i could quite happley help yahoos idea formation in the making by giving them ideas about product extensions, business suggestions or other thoughtful stuff but being a multinational engine of expression this time i thought it usfull to have a moan about how under credited i feel african minds and Far east minds are at the moment in my view o from the modern media.
by wildchild_plasma_gyro March 18, 2008 5:01 PM PDT
About if google is uptodate with the times.

The google user interface was outdated upon creation. Still no one else was at the time there competing with creative effort enough when the CIA was collecting all the free energy and lazering peoples eyes back in the early 2000's

Still to be usful and not considered as spam to be ready for the new age Google.

Needs to be more better with its advertising system letting the web publishers have better say over whats advertised and haggle over the issue better too.

Needs to develop a beeter Hardware setup for customers who are more Enthusiastic so that they can work better searchs and work with over all research better be they math students or Actors looking for Prop data and such.

Need to not listen to much to descending voices and still make sure their main core setup is of small data and fast.

Oh and google definitly needs to capatilise better on growing interlectual developments like wikis and also Open their minds a bit to whilst being small and effective also being better to work with in terms of interface.

Google like most companies today has more that just technical men issues has seriously flawed managment form although as i said this factor is common accross the whole internet Business model and is obviousley reflective of how the dynamic market equlibrium is a tough challange with much fruit to gain still from ones labourand in which sense beggs the question why over the past 5 years has there along side social networking there been with a lot of potential young entra perners been a decile in Vibrancy akin to that that spark up with the Explosion in the late 90's.

Yes although some otfits have become more productive and tougher there is a notable decline in succesfull originallity.

I believe this is for two reasons like said above the military has been to technilogically limiting and acceptent to corruption under the guidence of george bush and the likes and secondly people are egar to get on with trying to make their construct dream for the net a reality but the Fighting military world is still depriving such of the full spot light and needed encouragment.

In which sense Google is still ahead of the pack

My point being that with but some organic merry golds and a couple of fig one could make somthing good for old peoples eyes that would sell as a nice natural Luten strong mini drink or somthing but the market has gone backwards to selling high cow gut bacteria drinks as the ultimate health solution ect ect all due to sloppy economic managment and too high a demand for war.

Well blow me a whistle
First a rant , then some usful suggestions and then a rational agument relative to how a diverse system like Google is doing here in the market with an overall assesment.

After all that one deservs some sleep oh i forgot in order for that to happen one would have to lower the building up potential of the overpowering technologies of the earth fields with field collection and grounding technologies and coas energy fluxuation capabilities not to mention the ability to do similar things to the lazer field which all is cosmologically fluxuant accross the whole earth allowing infiltrators to take away all this intelligence seeping into the deeps and angering and depressing you into a robot response action such that is on the tip of your toung.

So how and who would be able top near single handedly dirupt these beggers for you enough for your mind to refresh tonight.
Perhaps George bush might or if you strap some dynamite to your chesh and invade a office hillary clinton might.

Well if you hear someone laughing tonight just may be you get some sweet restfull moments of non constant mind control invasion.

Its alright i can feel right now the Square Square wah wah field of CIA crapness building in your mind readying the response ***.
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by BIGELLOW March 21, 2008 10:24 AM PDT
That is EXACTLY what I was thinking.
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