Google, Yahoo, eBay, Microsoft--which will merge?

Competition among the four is intensifying, and JPMorgan analysts are predicting at least a strategic partnership.

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[jeanloui]

Will merge Yahoo+Microsoft+eBay

That's my prediction:<br /><br />Yahoo+Microsoft+eBay can merge (and probably they will do <br />sooner or later).<br /><br />Google can not merge with such "trash.com" companies, lol

[nmcphers]

Guess you missed it

Yahoo rebuffed Microsoft's proposal for a partnership.

[Sandra_Kerns]

Microsoft vs Google = Exxon vs Chevron = No competition; go AnooX

To say that there is competition between Microsoft, Google &#38; Yahoo, it is the same as saying there is competition between Exxon, Chevron <br />Which means no real competition/difference at all. <br />I mean what is the REAL difference to the people from the competition between Exxon, Chevron &#38; BP, etc. Big oil:<br />1) Do we get oil from one at 50% off the price compared to others? NO.<br />2) Do we get alternative renewable sources of fuel from one compared to others? NO.<br />OTOH - you have a small Brazilian oil producer which is producing alternative renewable fuel from Sugar Cain which is then enabling Brazilian people to have a real choice from Monopolies of Exxon, Chevron &#38; BP, etc. and as a result get <br />fuel at about 30% of the price of Oil being sold by these mega corporations.<br />A real competition which is Good for the people, good for the environment. <br />Just goes to show how good real competition and resulting choice is, compared to NOTHING real difference between Exxon, Chevron &#38; BP, etc.<br /><br />The same NOTHING real difference is what we are getting from the so called competition between Microsoft, Google &#38; Yahoo.<br />What is needed in search engine market is the equivalent of the small Brazilian companies to the effective monopolies of Exxon, Chevron &#38; BP.<br />I know of one such a choice, it is this search engine called ANooX:<br />www.anoox.com<br />Anoox is a real alternative to the effective monopolies and resulting no real difference of Microsoft, Google &#38; Yahoo because:<br />1- Anoox search results are better due to being ultimately generated by the knowledge (vote) of the people worldwide<br /> <a class="jive-link-external" href="http://www.anoox.com/whyanooxsrbetter.jsp" target="_newWindow">http://www.anoox.com/whyanooxsrbetter.jsp</a><br />2- Better because Anoox is operated on an Open &#38; De-centralized model where different providers through out the world operate it for their local (country) market, so no one company will centralize &#38; control all search engine information<br />and value as is the case with Microsoft, Google &#38; Yahoo<br /> <a class="jive-link-external" href="http://www.anoox.com/sep-overview.jsp" target="_newWindow">http://www.anoox.com/sep-overview.jsp</a><br />3- Anoox is better because cost of Advertising on it is a fraction of Ad rates on Google &#38; Yahoo because of their Community (not-for-profit) business model.<br /><br />So if you like real choice and resulting value, then support Anoox or ANY OTHER independent search engines YOU KNOW. If you like getting screwed by effective monopolies of Google &#38; Yahoo &#38; Microsoft; same as you are by the effective<br />monopolies of Exxon, Chevron &#38; BP, etc. then don't.

[dewalt25]

Two points

First, look up the word monopoly. It may open an eye.<br /><br />Second, the results on Anoox are not even good. It's not even doing a decent job. It's slow. I even doubt that it crawls the web.

[techguy83]

umm no, AnnoX sucks

It is slow and inefficient compared to any of the other three search companies you listed. <br /><br />Also, if your trying to prove a point about why one product is better, dont use that product's obviously biased information page. <br /><br />And stop trolling. :)

[Captain_Spock]

So, What About IBM!

As this article states in its opening paragraph; "Speculation is rife on Wall Street that a big Internet deal or alliance is in the works, with Google, Yahoo, eBay or Microsoft as possible partner--and a Yahoo-eBay partnership seen as most likely...'; the big question is - since "JPMorgan Chase", CITIGROUP and other financial institutions have been known to have "missed" their mark on occasions; re: ENRON... (and they are now quite apparently involved in an unscientific guessing game) why would WALL STREET in particular and the world in general be willing to accept the "speculations" from this so-called "JPMorgan Chase Internet Team" who have apparently "absentmindly" left out the likes of SAP and IBM from the equations, particularly "IBM" with its planned release of "HANNOVER" later this year which will support the now ISO approved "OPEN DOCUMENT FORMAT STANDARDS" which MICROSOFT has yet to state its intentions about with regards to support for the OPEN DOCUMENT FORMAT STANDARDS which are very much likely to present corporate businesses and government agencies worldwide with compelling reasons to move to these standards in preference to Microsoft's and other proprietary solutions thus impacting on any assumed strong positions by Microsoft, Google, eBay and others in the identified market place from a global perspective!

[ntis]

SAP has to merge

They don't own thier own platform - SAP will merge with MSFT, Oracle, SUN, or Redhat... more at <a class="jive-link-external" href="http://blog.tallsails.com/2006/05/19/sap-realizes-they-are-out-in-the-cold.aspx" target="_newWindow">http://blog.tallsails.com/2006/05/19/sap-realizes-they-are-out-in-the-cold.aspx</a>

[Captain_Spock]

An Educated Guess...

... will be that any merger between SAP and another "suitor" will be IBM since SAP from its creation has had an IBMer within its ranks; and, have you been following developments lately - this article reads as follows: "IBM Lotus software is announcing two solutions to help customers gain productivity, flexibility and responsiveness: IBM Workplace? for SAP® Software and IBM® Lotus® Notes® access for SAP solutions. Both are part of an initiative dubbed 'Project Harmony,' which draws on IBM's Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) technologies and brings the power of IBM collaboration software directly to SAP customer environments without the need for an SAP system upgrade..."<br /><br /><a class="jive-link-external" href="http://www-142.ibm.com/software/sw-lotus/lotus/general.nsf/wdocs/lotusforsap" target="_newWindow">http://www-142.ibm.com/software/sw-lotus/lotus/general.nsf/wdocs/lotusforsap</a><br /><br />and, the coming of "HANNOVER" will be the ICING-ON-THE-CAKE for the "merger" between IBM and SAP to compete against the dominant "Office" control market place held by the Microsoft Corporation!

[steverene11]

It's NOT Rocket Science and the Media and Wall Street are watching !

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