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Yahoo Outsourcing Search Ads To Google

Posted April 9th, 2008 by Jeremy Schoemaker

If you can’t beat em (or even come close) then join em!

CNBC is reporting that Yahoo is now outsourcing its search Ads to Google. As you can see below the stock immediatly tanked then rebounded slightly.

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Have yet to see any news on the web yet.

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  1. Good Comment?
    auctionpixelpage.com

    Soap opera alright ! Google can’t stand the though of anyone getting close and their arrogance is sickening. May just get a little too big for their own boots and let’s see what happens. They remind me of someone who got too much money too soon, didn’y know how to carry that responsibility, and lost the lot. A very wealthy man told me about this principle once. That is, about those who can “carry” their wealth and those who cannot. He even pointed out those around him that fit into either category. those that could not carry the responsibility were usually loud and overbearing whilst those that could were respectful and better listeners than talkers. Which one of these do you think Google is ? How about eBay ? How about MS ?

  2. Good Comment?
    Dr. Teeth

    haha, thats really funny

  3. Good Comment?
    Dr. Teeth

    don’t you think its a strategy to destabilize google?

  4. Good Comment?
    Dr. Teeth

    Microsoft and Yahoo; biggest joke of the year!

  5. Good Comment?
    Web Marketeer

    If you can’t beat them….just more confirmation of Google’s absolute dominance of the search engine market. Yahoo won’t be able to continue as an independent entity for much longer if they continue giving their power away like this.

  6. Good Comment?
    ukadpool

    Gonna change the company name to Yahoogle then?

  7. Good Comment?
    Not John

    With Yahoo its personal. They hate MicroSoft!

  8. Good Comment?
    Funky South

    still waiting to see MS response !

  9. Good Comment?
    Shanker Bakshi

    Interesting post, but we are loosing interest in Yahoo, google Microsoft -Nothing like BANGGGGG is coming up. Its just like usual business runing over there.

  10. Good Comment?
    OnlineMoneyMakers

    Looks like a white flag to me…

  11. Good Comment?
    Website Reviews

    WTH is Yahoo Doing? They are putting both middle fingers up and pointing them square at MS. I think it is their way of saying “We would rather hand the business over to Google than sell to you for what you offered!”

  12. Good Comment?
    Pike

    When I saw this on Fox Business last night, I wanted to puke. WTH is Yahoo doing?!

  13. Good Comment?
    Brick Marketing

    It is one big search engine soap opera!

  14. Good Comment?
    Aaron Nimocks

    Yes it has. It is 2008-04-09.

  15. Good Comment?
    Aaron Nimocks

    If it makes you money then do it! Sounds like a smart move to me.

  16. Good Comment?
    Nicholas James

    Yes, i’ve even covered it on my blog earlier too :)

  17. Good Comment?
    Flimjo

    Yea. Far from it.

  18. Good Comment?
    Flimjo

    Wouldn’t that create a monopoly?

  19. Good Comment?
    Flimjo

    Probably. Anything they can do to resist this takeover.

  20. Good Comment?
    Meethere

    lol. More troubles for microsoft now..
    What difference it will make ?

  21. Good Comment?
    Affiliate Confession

    I think it would just keep Yahoo from going under and give stockholders and the suits some money so they can bail out…I’m guessing.

  22. Good Comment?
    Keylogger Hater

    “MS/live/msn is dead in the water” anyway. Personally i will not worry if google will buy yahoo, maybe because of microsoft is simply annoying me, dunno.

  23. Good Comment?
    Julian

    I just cannot believe it. It’s not a good day for MS. :-)

  24. Good Comment?
    Felex Tan

    Google has larger network,thats why they choose them.

  25. Good Comment?
    Funky South

    I think actualy this may increase the chances of MS buying out Yahoo, I mean if google and yahoo team up MS/live/msn is dead in the water.

  26. Good Comment?
    Funky South

    this is interesting, wonder what the MS people are thinking ! !!!

  27. Good Comment?
    Punters and Pints

    I thought the shoe money logo was part of the graph for a second :(
    Will be interesting to see how this pans out.

  28. Good Comment?
    Jason Rodriguez

    I don’t see the value in this. In the long run Yahoo will lose all their advertising relationships to Google.

  29. Good Comment?
    Homebizseo.com

    Yahoo is desperate.. Yahoo is run like a bunch of drunk moneys working with 13 year olds out of a basement. Yahoo needs a whole new board and staff. Sell already.

  30. Good Comment?
    Shane

    Not gonna fly. Too bad Yang is past the point where he can get out of this without looking like an idiot … which means he’s going to keep fighting the merger and these supposed white knights are going to take chunks out of him in the process. Just do the MS deal already and walk away with some freaking dignity.

  31. Good Comment?
    Terry Tay

    Very interesting! What would be their reasons for doing this? I know some are mentioning the MS thing, but how does this help Yahoo?
    ~Terry

  32. Good Comment?
    hawee

    is really true ??

  33. Good Comment?
    Alejandro Reyes

    trying to fend off Microsoft?

    very interesting to see how all this unfolds…

  34. Good Comment?
    Affiliate Confession

    Yea, I just went over to Yahoo and read about it.

  35. Good Comment?
    Affiliate Confession

    This could get interesting in the next few weeks. I think it would be a disaster for Google to get control of Yahoo. Like Google needs more control over the web? Please, no!

  36. Good Comment?
    Sean

    good point. make sure and look at the scale of the chart. The volume though is interesting shows alot of interest in this deal

  37. Good Comment?
    Sean

    this had to be a card they were trying to buy time to play. in a way though it makes them look a little desperate and makes the ms thing appear plausible whereas before this move one might start believing that yahoo had something coming out of their own shop…hard to believe that now

  38. Good Comment?
    Melvin

    wtf!!! HAHA, they really have made the wisest choice..

  39. Good Comment?
    Saw Media News on This

    I saw some media news for this on the mediaweek.com site

    This is crazy..a little too desperate are we?

  40. Good Comment?
    Monopowiki

    Now the WSJ is reporting AOL and Yahoo are in talks. Yahoo is like a desperate dude looking for someone to go home with as the bartender yells last call.

  41. Good Comment?
    Forumistan

    Yeah, thats totally true.

  42. Good Comment?
    Website Reviews

    Well microsoft has always been a bully, I guess Yahoo is just saying, I would rather “do no evil” than be taken over by evil its self!

  43. Good Comment?
    Sean

    they keep poisoning the well to make ms go away. ms won’t though. y is starting to look a little pathetic. pathetic is relative of course. wouldn’t we all like to be pathetic like y?

  44. Good Comment?
    Chad Frederiksen

    And google in the last 6 months, thats big time tanking.

  45. Good Comment?
    The Internet Apprentice

    Yahoo just seems to be a company without any direction these days. I suspect this is just some kind of ploy to get Microsoft to up their bid. I guess time will tell …

  46. Good Comment?
    Monopowiki

    the news is now on Yahoo’s homepage, so that’s some added weight to the rumor.

  47. Good Comment?
    SEO hosting

    Anything to stop MSN according to the New York Times.

    http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/09/yahoo-to-announce-test-partnership-with-google/?ref=business

  48. Good Comment?
    Matt

    True on a very small scale –

  49. Good Comment?
    Paul

    Ridiculous, I have also heard that MSN is going to start strong arming Yahoos board to make the deal happen. Shoestradamus what is your prediction on MSN buying out Yahoo???

  50. Good Comment?
    ShoeMoney

    Hey Bill- that is state of the art watermarking there…

  51. Good Comment?
    Jonathan Volk

    Hahahaha that was my thought too. I dont believe it yet.

  52. Good Comment?
    Terra Andersen

    I am agreeing with Bill D. on this one. That little almost-Shoemoney logo was the first thing that caught my eye. *=) however, I am not surprised at the story. Perhaps Yahoo is just going crazy these days.

  53. Good Comment?
    james

    even a dead cat will bounce if it falls hard enough!

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_cat_bounce

  54. Good Comment?
    Bill D

    Yeah, yeah, the news is really interesting. Much more importantly, though, the childlike-scrawl of the Shoemoney logo on the picture just totally made my day.

  55. Good Comment?
    Todd Mintz

    I’m not sure dropping from $27.60 per share to $27.20 quite qualifies as “tanking” :.) Bear Stearns…they tanked.

  56. Good Comment?
    Jeff - buzzmyblog.com

    The stock only dropped 40 cents. I am not sure I would call that “tanking”.

  57. Good Comment?
    PacificGatePost

    Yang is in urgent need of new advisors. Though this deal isn’t to our collective advantage, it will get done, all that remains to be decided is the structure of the deal.

    http://pacificgatepost.blogspot.com/2008/04/microsoft-yahoo-and-rest-of-us.html

  58. Good Comment?
    Hustle Strategy

    f’ me, not f’ you… Yawho, is crazy on multiple levels.

  59. Good Comment?
    Hustle Strategy

    I am sure Microsoft is happy to hear this… This wouldn’t surprise me. Yawho is crazy not to let microsoft take them out of their misery.

  60. Good Comment?
    My Internet Business Review

    Nice chart doesnt seems too good

  61. Good Comment?
    jim

    yahoo giving ms the finger for the ultimatum? :)

  62. Good Comment?
    Paul Grunt

    What launches in the valley should stay in the valley. Google buys Yahoo! Can’t wait to read that.

  63. Good Comment?
    Nicole

    I know Paidcontent.org is working on something as i type this….

  64. Good Comment?
    Jamersan

    Outlets now reporting this: http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/article/10744/Yahoo%2C-Google-in-Talks-Over-Ad-Deal

  65. Good Comment?
    Stephanie

    Hmm… are they thumbing their noses at Microsoft again?

  66. Good Comment?
    Jamersan

    Wow, after looking a bit online, I’m still not sure about the yahoo report, but the stock fluctuation is legit: Yahoo Stock

  67. Good Comment?
    Jamersan

    Hasn’t april fools day already passed?

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