Microhoo: By the numbers
Six days have passed since Microsoft's "deadline" for Yahoo to come to the negotiating table. Despite the promise that Microsoft would take action, very little of substance has happened this week.
Rather than spend another day reiterating Microsoft's options or parsing the latest noncommittal statement from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, I decided to offer a look at some things that have happened in the past six days.
Search metrics
Number of searches performed on Google: 1.21 billion
Number of searches performed on Yahoo: 441 million
Number of searches performed on MSN/Live Search: 197 million
Revenue
Revenue taken in by Microsoft: $952.7 million
Revenue taken in by Yahoo: $119.9 million
Revenue taken in by Google: $342.2 million
Stock market
Change in Microsoft's stock, as of 9:41 a.m. Friday: down 2.1 percent
Change in Yahoo's stock, as of 9:42 a.m. Friday: up 4 percent
Change in Google's stock, as of 9:41 a.m. Friday: up 6 percent
Miscellany
Number of times the stock market has closed, meaning an announcement was "imminent": 4
Number of times the stock market closed and an announcement actually was imminent: 0
Number of afternoons wasted: four (and counting)
Number of baseball games one of my editors missed waiting for something to happen: 1
Amount of times I've heard about said baseball game: 12
(Disclaimer: Numbers are guesstimates based on extrapolating February ComScore core search figures and most recently reported quarterly financial results. For entertainment purposes only. Not valid in VT, NH or where prohibited by law. Never siphon by mouth. Contents may be hot. May contain forward looking statements, gluten or tree nuts.)
During her years at CNET News, Ina Fried has changed beats several times, changed genders once, and covered both of the Pirates of Silicon Valley. These days, most of her attention is focused on Microsoft. E-mail Ina.
