Comments on: Chart: A Microsoft-Yahoo combo by the numbers

What would Microsoft gain by swallowing Yahoo for a proposed $44.6 billion? CNET News.com contrasts combined stats with Google's.

[ancre007]

How about international?

What's the point of discussing U.S. only share? Google, Yahoo and Microsoft serve international audiences and derive revenues and profits globally. How about providing total worldwide numbers?

[Tom Krazit]

Stats hard to come by

The companies that track this sort of thing, the Comscores and Nielsens, tend to only report U.S. numbers. We had a very difficult time tracking down worldwide numbers for anything but that one metric reported in the chart.

You're right, of course, it's silly to ignore all those other places. But we've got to report hard numbers, and U.S. numbers are what those companies report.

[ancre007]

How about international?

What's the point of discussing U.S. only share? Google, Yahoo and Microsoft serve international audiences and derive revenues and profits globally. How about providing total worldwide numbers?

[Tom Krazit]

Stats hard to come by

The companies that track this sort of thing, the Comscores and Nielsens, tend to only report U.S. numbers. We had a very difficult time tracking down worldwide numbers for anything but that one metric reported in the chart.

You're right, of course, it's silly to ignore all those other places. But we've got to report hard numbers, and U.S. numbers are what those companies report.

[kulotzky]

What a combo!

So, we will be seeing a new search engine soon with a very cool name: MICROHOO! Ho, ho, ho! Is it X'mas yet?

[kulotzky]

What a combo!

So, we will be seeing a new search engine soon with a very cool name: MICROHOO! Ho, ho, ho! Is it X'mas yet?

[TBolt]

Still sucks

Even if this deal closes, Microsoft will still suck and Yahoo, who charges for services that Google offers for free, will charge even more. Fortunately, the only items I'll lose by leaving Yahoo are Yahoo News, Yahoo IM and Yahoo Music. Oh well.

[TBolt]

Still sucks

Even if this deal closes, Microsoft will still suck and Yahoo, who charges for services that Google offers for free, will charge even more. Fortunately, the only items I'll lose by leaving Yahoo are Yahoo News, Yahoo IM and Yahoo Music. Oh well.

[klimenkop]

This chart is full of errors

Has anybody explained to whomever created this chart the notion of unique visitors and duplication? You cannot simply add unique users of Yahoo and MSN to get to a total combined number, because there's a tremendous amount of overlap where Yahoo users also go to MSN, and visa versa. The combined unique visitors of two sites will be more like 600MM uniques, not 1.2B!! There are 1.2B people online in the entire world.... Same applies for your cals of mail/IM combination. Also, in order to compare apples to apples, you need to count Yahoo and Google total revenue excluding partner commissions, so the revenue numbers are $5.1B and $11.7B, respectively. (Not $7B and $17B).
Whoever created the chart doesn't understand these companies' business or online market metrics....

[TV James]

Not to mention...

Yahoo!'s and Microsoft's Instant Messaging clients are already pretty much interoperable.

[klimenkop]

This chart is full of errors

Has anybody explained to whomever created this chart the notion of unique visitors and duplication? You cannot simply add unique users of Yahoo and MSN to get to a total combined number, because there's a tremendous amount of overlap where Yahoo users also go to MSN, and visa versa. The combined unique visitors of two sites will be more like 600MM uniques, not 1.2B!! There are 1.2B people online in the entire world.... Same applies for your cals of mail/IM combination. Also, in order to compare apples to apples, you need to count Yahoo and Google total revenue excluding partner commissions, so the revenue numbers are $5.1B and $11.7B, respectively. (Not $7B and $17B).
Whoever created the chart doesn't understand these companies' business or online market metrics....

[TV James]

Not to mention...

Yahoo!'s and Microsoft's Instant Messaging clients are already pretty much interoperable.