I stand in awe of thee Shoestradamus

I bow to your superior industry insight. Please use your power wisely Shoe!

If you could let us all know what’s going to happen in the last three seasons of Lost so that we don’t actually have to watch it that would be great.

So what happens next, Shoestradamus?

I suppose the big question is will the deal go through?

Classic!

That a boy!

Hi Shoe, do you think the merging of Yahoo and MS is going well. In the German Newssite Spiegel they sayed, most Big Tech mergings went wrong. For example Time Warner / AOL or HP / Comaq.

Looks like Quadszilla had you beat by a few months though man

http://seoblackhat.com/2006/07/20/microsoft-and-yahoo-merger-preparations/

I bow to your greatness! Too bad my broker don’t read shoemoney enough.

I told you so Shoe, but not only did you not listen, but you wrote about it yourself, claiming it as your own idea…nice.
J/K
good call..

Amazing,

Well not really but still. Good guess

Ummmmm linkbait?

Awesome. Any chance you could share the PA lottery numbers for the next few days? Just kidding.

Michael

did you predict the first attempted purchase where yahoo said thanks, but no thanks? or are you saying you predicted this new purchase?

With great power comes great responsibility

They just made an offer… can’t gloat yet.

good job

Aww, Daddy gonna call his broker now. Blue Horseshoe loves MSFT…buy a hundred thousand shares at the market. Don’t forget to add some big banks to that order!

well done, but seriously, about those lotto numbers…

lol … great pic. By the way, I was wondering if … oh, never mind.

Just saw the headline on iGoogle. As long as they don’t replace the mail system with their crappy hotmail! I hate hotmail.

Ok. All kidding aside… who do I bet on this Superbowl weekend?

wow you guessed it. However I don’t think this will solve yahoo’s or MSN’s problem and Im not sure what is worse. MSN adcenter or yahoo’s lack of traffic.

Nothing set in stone yet boys, don’t get your affiliate IDs in a tie yet.

Good work on your part, bad on MS.

First, MS is probably a bit too late. With stellar earnings from Google (disregarding today’s and last quarter), I think analysts have been upping expectations for internet advertising sales. Strike one.

Strike two would be the huge payback period. $40B is a helluva lot of money to make up. Now, I havne’t referenced any facts or anything, purely off the top of my head, but didn’t Google have a revenue of 1 or 1.5B last quarter for advertising sales?

I mean, lets keep it real, MS is only buying Yahoo because of its marketshare in internet advertising. By getting rid of one of the major competitors, you are now looking at only two main sources of traffic search.

Unfortunately, I doubt this fact will do very well for affiliate marketers, as with one third of the competition gone, its only a matter of time before MS and Google can justify a hike in ad costs. Also with Google getting its ass handed to it today, Google has to show up to next earnings reporting with a shining gold star. That would mean raising prices for advertising.

I think MS is really just trying desperately to enter anything that can give them a better marketshare. Facebook, anyone? While Google is an innovating company, it seems that microsoft is just clawing to keep up.

And c’mon, Yahoo? Has anyone seen their stock price over the last year? Jeremy, unfortunately if you were holding onto your share for a year, you would be below breakeven. I’m sure many shareholders saw today’s 48% stock price spike as a relief ‘hail-mary’, rather than a jump for excitment with profits falling from the sky. after all, Yahoo as a company has been doing piss-poor for a while now, even after their golden boy Yang came back to the helm.

Well done on MS for bidding on Yahoo, when its shares were at the worst its seen since early 2004.

-Kunal

wait mark cuban actually called you out on that? lol!

Now that was a great call! What’s next for the colonial empire of Microsoft?

Shoestradamus, please tell us. When will Google buy Skype?

HAHAHA
WOW. So I read this post and instantly thought of who Shoe reminds me off… Ed Glosser.. TRIVIAL PSYCHIC!!

“I didn’t ask for these powers, they just came to me!”

Must watch: http://video.aol.com/video-detail/saturday-night-live-ed-glosser-trivial-psychic/470296958

btw, nice predictions Shoe

I heard about this ! I think they are buying it to try and “save” yahoo because they did so bad this year. Microsoft’s live search I heard was not doing so hot either?

So with a head to head microsoft / google rivalry would google grabbing adobe be out of the question? Google is in the software business now and control over the flash player could be invaluable.

Shoestradamus January 29th, 2008

“I think Google will meet 4th quarter expectations and the stock will rise a bit to 600 by the end of the week. Its currently at 555.98 per share.”

End of the week Google misses estimates to close at $515.90.

This will be interesting, one big advertising network with Yahoo and Microsoft combined

Stockbroker? But in your bubble post you said you didnt care for the market

WOw!!!! thats huge!!!! NIce pic shoe…^^

You are a genius, Master Shoe. Maybe someday you will make the cover of Business Week.

Good work! So what does this mean for their announcement that they’re getting rid of 1,000 people to, you know, “pave the way for the future”? (or prevent the CEO from taking a pay cut… or whatever the real reason was)

Shoestradamus strikes again !!

Cool post

This should have happened last year, because Microsoft had some previous chances to buy but i think Yahoo didn’t want to sell.

i think it was quite anticipated given that the stock of yahoo really tanked for the last few months.. i’m actually quite surprised it didn’t happen sooner…
the most amazing thing that can still happen if yahoo board rejects the offer…

I don’t know why people wants that Microsoft buys Yahoo? I don’t like it, because Microsoft becomes more popular and then you need to optimize for a lot of search engines, that is not human. Or are there some advantages for us when Microsoft buys Yahoo?

Good work, Shoestradamus.

Your Blog is great and it is a pleasure to read information from a real person. I am not suprised you are so well listed. Honesty is what got you to the top ratings. Hope I can follow in your footsteps with my blog.

Regards

Richard

Is this finally an admission from MS that their search engine is fucked? And to the extent that it’s worth spending $44 billion to fix?

Wow Jermy Is Right i give you big props bro i would of never thought microsoft would of did that but you did your da man

Ha ha,,I was waiting for this post. If Yahoo does bite, do two wrongs make a right? Even if they do merge and IF the merger proves to be an improvement - they’ll still only barely put a dent in Google.

So…Does AOL go to Google or News Corp…Now is time for TimeWarner to unleash the dog and run while there is some traffic there. It has been a scary drag on TW stock since Scott Case pulled the ultimate fast one!

Shoe. I can only see this as a trade of favors. Isn’t it logical that when yahoo announces the dismissal of employees hoping to bolster it’s stock (making more of what we call activos, or assets available) it doesn’t happen. We heard of such smokebombs before. I just don’t see it happening.

If they hadn’t done it before by 50k million, why now for less? It’s just a maneuver to up-n-up their stocks again. God knows what Yahoo will have to pay for with later.

I think it won’t do any good, but will make google better as stocks of yahoo will fall and microsoft’s investment will not come in result for a few years atleast. I dont think it is a good idea. But o well.

I think I saw this news somewhere but I didn’t thought it was true till I see this. Is yahoo really getting in trouble or do they just wanna team up and compete with Google? Makes me wonder.
~Terry

This could be a possibility, as they can combine and give Google a hard time together.

What a beard that guy has!

Good prediction shoe, another step for Microsoft to change the way they are perceived in search, well away from their company branding.
nice to meet you too! im on the weight loss program too, well done to you on that

i hope if microsoft do buy yahoo, the yahoo mail stays there. yahoo mail is much better than msn hotmail.

Yahoo is really going down. I see Microsoft as a good solution to put Yahoo back on his feet.