Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 4th May 2007 15:51 UTC, submitted by Almafeta
Software maker Microsoft asked search engine operator Yahoo to re-enter formal negotiations for an acquisition that could be worth USD 50 billion, the New York Post reported on Friday. Microsoft is feeling increasing pressure to compete with Google, which plans to beef up its portfolio with a USD 3.1 billion buy of online advertising company DoubleClick. Earlier this week, Yahoo said it would buy 80 percent of advertising exchange Right Media for USD 680 million, increasing its stake in that company to full control. Microsoft currently trails both Yahoo and Google in the lucrative and growing business of Web search. Update:. The deal's off.
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2007-02-22
As a tangent, speaking as (presently) a diehard Google user, I've noticed the quality of Google's results are slowly dropping, and the quality of Live's results are steadily increasing. I only use Live when Google fails me completely, and that's becoming a not common but notably more frequent occurence. When I do use it, I've noticed that the interface is getting slightly better, the results significantly so.
If Live continues to improve like this, and if Google continues this steady decline, then we might see two search engines instead of one on the market. But then again, who knows how Microsoft will use Yahoo!'s technologies? If they return to Yahoo's 'bad old days' when they were adding icons and such left and right and cluttering up the page with dozens of things that you weren't interested in which you still had to load anyways, then Microsoft's investment will just go to waste.