Comments on: Microsoft's Yahoo strategy: Betting on Yang

If the company is going to do a partial deal for Yahoo's search business, the thinking is that it will be easier to hammer out an accord while Jerry Yang is still in charge.

[Penguinisto]

"The thinking inside the company is that the search agreement between Yahoo and Google will encounter antitrust objections. " ..................and a deal between Yahoo and MSFT wouldn't? Umm, okay. I think... You sure the lights are on in Redmond today?

[charlie cooper]

yo penguin-guy,

i've given up trying to predict the predisposition of this - or any other DOJ. whether the trustbusters in a bush administration would be more accommodating than antitrust regulators in a future obama or mccain administration ....who knows? but i think you can make a case that a google-yahoo collaboration on search would invite more scrutiny than a MS-Yahoo deal. why? respective market share comparisons.

coop

[Kwasiowusu]

To Penguinisto, Yahoo + Google = over 90% of search market..
Yahoo + Microsoft = Less than 30% of the search market.
Ergo, Yahoo plus Google equals monopoly, while Yahoo plus Microsoft is not even close to a Monopoly.
It's not rocket science.

[The_Decider]

Market share does not equal an illegal monopoly. Why would you think that? Economics is not rocket science yet you fail to grasp even the basics.

[The_Decider]

Microsoft can not buy their way back into relevance. They do not understand the internet and its future. What they need to do is get rid of idiots like Ballmer and move into the 21st century.