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Latest rumor is that it could sign a search ad deal this week with Yahoo to thwart Google, acquire Yahoo as pressure mounts from shareholders, then acquire Facebook.
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- by Jamie_Foster May 19, 2008 4:37 PM PDT
- This new plan would be a much better bet. If we got Microsoft and Yahoo best Search People together then... maybe they could catch up Google.
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(3 Comments)Yahoo would get cash in their pocket. They would stay independent. Maybe as part of the deal Microsoft and Yahoo could also merge their Datacenter operations. I don't think Yahoo wants to or could invest in the Million Server Project that MS is doing worldwide.
This would not be the integration nightmare that MSN/Windows Live with Yahoo would have been.
If they could make it work, then MS could absorb Facebook and Yahoo could absorb Myspace/Fox Interactive.
Microsoft and Yahoo would both win. Only Google would lose. I also would advise Bill Gates to test the water with Baidu and that Korean outfit NHN. They have both wiped the floor with Google in their home markets.
I want to see a strong Microsoft online and strong Yahoo. Consumers, Advertisers etc need some healthy competition. I want the Google monopoly to be smashed.