The Wall Street Journal today has a article that says Yahoo and Microsoft are in merger negotiations. The Wall Street Journal failed to mention that this was predicted to happen already in 2007 according to shoestradamus. Here is my 10 reasons why Microsoft will acquire Yahoo In 2007 That I posted last year.
EDIT: A author from the new york times pinged me to let me know they did credit me here and will include a credit if it goes through **HOTNESS**
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May 9, 2007 at 10:15 pm
I am skeptical of the MSN / Yahoo deal, I do think it makes sense for MSN, but I just don’t see it happening. Yahoo won’t sell for cheap, and I don’t see Microsoft spending a premium for a property that is loosing market share to Google.
May 9, 2007 at 4:16 pm
It should be an author instead of ashoe
May 9, 2007 at 2:33 pm
Well there is only one way to be number one by capturing the topmost sites.
May 8, 2007 at 2:03 pm
that would be a challenge for google
May 7, 2007 at 12:43 pm
Well google is all set to capture the market as much as possible. So microsoft is thinking to overtake yahoo and then compete with google.
May 7, 2007 at 12:09 pm
Should we by shares of Microsoft or Yahoo? It looks like it will be moving soon somewhere.
May 6, 2007 at 5:40 pm
Yahoo recently signed contracts with 12 newspaper publishers to run the company’s ads on their Web sites, and these publishers represent more than 260 newspapers and the Web portal of Comcast Corp.
C’mon, Yahoo, stick to the content. You’re still have your “cool Web start-up” status. Don’t lose it by selling to Microsoft!
May 6, 2007 at 7:20 am
They would have a tough road ahead of them, but you have to look at it through MS’s eyes. Steve Balmer recently said that Google is king of the search industry, but every non-search thing they are doing is “cute”
Microsoft’s biggest problem is that they are always trying to monetize first rather than building a following and then trying to monetize all of the traffic later.
In fact, the Supreme Court’s recent ruling that a business can’t patent “obvious ideas” to prevent competition could mean that all of those search algorithm patents that make G superior are now fair game.
May 6, 2007 at 7:20 am
Well it didn’t happen yet, 6 more months left in 2007. Let’s see how it plays out.
May 6, 2007 at 7:15 am
MS is not getting owned by anyone in the OS world. They still have a 96% share of all WORLDWIDE desktops, and they are content to let Apple (which MS owns 1/2 of) make funny commercials and let Dell sell unbantu boxes.
MS knows that the future is software as a service, and their own attempts to develop a successful model in this industry have failed. Heads have rolled, people have been “reassigned” and now they need to make up lost ground.
Yahoo has an instant audience, some ad technology, and a ton of intellectual property. Yahoo would not allow Microsoft to directly compete with Google – yet.
May 5, 2007 at 5:28 pm
won’t solve the problems for either parties. if you have 2 losing companies, you combine them and you will get a bigger losing company.
May 5, 2007 at 5:01 pm
I wonder if they will merge their search statistics data… that would be an awesome merged source of stats!
May 4, 2007 at 11:45 pm
I have mixed feelings about this – whilst it may be necessary for Microsoft and Yahoo to get together to try and seriously compete with Google, it would ultimately lead us to a duopoly which cannot be a good thing for the consumer.
- Martin Reed
May 4, 2007 at 4:46 pm
That would be huge.
May 4, 2007 at 4:02 pm
Why?
May 4, 2007 at 4:02 pm
I think that a Yahoo/Microsoft merger might SEEM like giving Google one true competitor. But that’s like picking two nitwits and saying that the two, when working together, could get a better SAT score than the school genius.
Even together, there is no way Yahoo and Microsoft could ever really touch Google. They just don’t get the internet like the folks in Mountain View do.
May 4, 2007 at 3:59 pm
I disagree – I like MSN Adcenter much more than Yahoo search marketing. They’ve got a lower minimum click price AND telephone support.
May 4, 2007 at 3:03 pm
Yeah Im starting to wonder if it really will happen
May 4, 2007 at 3:02 pm
I dont think it will happen
May 4, 2007 at 12:19 pm
“I predict 2008 will see the attempted purchase of the Shoemoney brand. A bit like a nike deal for tiger woods
”
And I have a prediction about your prediction…if it is done, it will be by internet.com
May 4, 2007 at 11:49 am
because you generally credit people that predict certain results when there that far ahead
May 4, 2007 at 11:48 am
YPN is great, the payouts are excellent and their targeting has greatly improved recently
May 4, 2007 at 10:53 am
Shoeeeee, you got your hair back in that picture, right on man:).
May 4, 2007 at 9:56 am
I predict 2008 will see the attempted purchase of the Shoemoney brand. A bit like a nike deal for tiger woods
May 4, 2007 at 9:50 am
Why should the new york times credit you? You didn’t write the article.
May 4, 2007 at 9:25 am
I bet they will acquire Yahoo. I think its also interesting to see Yahoos stock jump – it means the talks are being taken seriously.
May 4, 2007 at 9:21 am
I hope they do! anything to take google down :\ sorry for google lovers but i’m not a fan.
May 4, 2007 at 9:02 am
less people use both of them but put the two together and you got some decent traffic… plus MSN conversions is higher but lower traffic… Buyers surf MSN
May 4, 2007 at 9:00 am
I like Yahoo better than MSN… atleast you can find out why your keywords were declined where msn it is a guessing game..
May 4, 2007 at 8:57 am
No one as evident by the traffic on my site which is on Live’s first page of results for a highly competitive kw. (#):D
May 4, 2007 at 8:19 am
I really like Yahoo also. Even YPN. I just wonder if there quality people like Tim Mayer and Jeremy Z will work for the man at M$
May 4, 2007 at 8:18 am
damn ok im 85,423 and 1
May 4, 2007 at 8:09 am
Aside from YPN, I actually like Yahoo. I’d be sad to see Microsoft buy them out and turn them into a flaming pile of crap, like everything else Microsoft has touched in the past few years.
May 4, 2007 at 7:58 am
Its already in the world of internet. MSN, Hotmail, AdCenter etc, etc, its where the money is. They are being owned in the OS world anyway….
…Longhorn anyone?
May 4, 2007 at 7:45 am
Wow, congrats on the link as well. NYTimes ftw!
May 4, 2007 at 7:35 am
You know, if MS spent enough and a lot of Yahoo’s people felt comfortable walking away for a while, that’d be a huge talent pool starting to do their own things. The result could be a really creative time in the online world. There could be a lot of really cool startups as a result.
Maybe we need a contest for startup ideas to give to retired Yahoo employees.
May 4, 2007 at 7:18 am
I really hope this happens but I hope they use Yahoo’s algo or maybe a hybrid of the two. MSN is too easy to spam and I think that would keep it from competing with G even if they do acquire or merge with Y.
May 4, 2007 at 6:52 am
i kind of dont like this, even though y and m together would be able to compete with google. The more options that are available the better.
May 4, 2007 at 6:45 am
Hopefully Microsoft’s pulls this through finally. The rumors have been flying around for a while now.
May 4, 2007 at 6:27 am
So MS is going to eat up Yahoo, and probably let it go to hell. This is a damn shame, but an easy way for MS to jump into contextual marketing since Yahoo has a good thing going. I wonder how long it will take them to bring YPN worldwide.
May 4, 2007 at 6:20 am
Why would a company in Product / OS space want to get in to the world of internet….. Its moving away from its core dusiness… Does it make sense for them…. They should be considering selling MSN…. One more good option would b a stake in Google…. is it nt???
May 4, 2007 at 6:16 am
The second last comment.
May 4, 2007 at 6:00 am
hmm where do you see spam?
May 4, 2007 at 5:33 am
You’ve got some nasty blog spam in that article you wrote back in 2006, Shoe.
May 4, 2007 at 5:16 am
Yahoo and Microsoft merging?!—Could this be a force big enough to take on the big G?! Well, if M$ is involved…prob not…