Comments on: Yahoo-Google deal doomed? No, they insist

The Deal reports that the search-ad partnership is falling victim to antitrust obstacles. Yahoo and Google say discussions continue, though.

[ralfthedog]

The deal would be good for competition.

This deal would keep Yahoo independent. Yahoo would just sell some webspace to Google, giving Yahoo the cash to fend off a Microsoft buyout. Microsoft has been a consistent failure when it comes to internet marketing. A Microsoft purchase of Yahoo would drag Yahoo down to Microsoft's level. Yahoo selling a few search phrases to Google would pull Yahoo up towards Google's level.

[Kwasiowusu]

@ ralfthedog: "The deal would be good for competition"

Huh?
You sound like some guy that just stepped out of George Orwell's 1984, an aparachnick from the notorious "Ministry of Truth", which has a bizarro world, where things which are pataently false, are somehow, suddenly, "the truth".
This deal is good for competition like Saddam was good for the Kurds (he gassed them to death by the thousands).

[Mr. Dee]

Yahoo! should have went with Microsoft when they had the chance. Microsoft is probably laughing their heads off right now, and Mr. Ballmer is probably feeling really lucky for not making a bad investment in this blundering economy.

[ralfthedog]

Yahoo as an independent company has some value. Yahoo owned by Microsoft has no value. If Yahoo Sells some advertising phrases to Google, Yahoo will survive and Google will have competition.

Remember, Google is not purchasing Yahoo. Google is not even buying part of Yahoo. Google will have no control of Yahoo. Yahoo is reserving the right to sell any search engine phrases to Google, but only if Google will pay more than Yahoo would otherwise make. Yahoo is not required to sell anything to google. Yahoo can walk away any time they want.

This is just a matter of one company selling a product to another company.