____/ Mark Kent on Wednesday 06 February 2008 07:30 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> ____/ Mark Kent on Tuesday 05 February 2008 18:39 : \____
>>
>>> RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@xxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>> Jerry McBride wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I really, really, really ope the deal goes through. It would be of
>>>>> Titantic proportions... hehehe
>>>>
>>>> Exactly. I think this purchase would hurt Microsoft, perhaps be the
>>>> beginning of the end. Unfortunately it would also kill Yahoo. And that's
>>>> why I don't like the deal.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yahoo are on their way out anyway. I've nothing particularly against
>>> them, but they are no longer "kewl".
>>
>> Were they ever. I did E-mail with them for several years, but only because
>> options were very limited at the time. I don't think they were ever seen as
>> cool (maybe in Japan they were).
>>
>
> When the search market was Altavista, Webcrawler and Yahoo!, then only
> the latter had any real traction amongst the young and trendy. That was
> long ago, though. Interestingly, they have some useful services,
> including their financial pages.
The interesting thing about indexes (search) is that you can't combine their
powers, especially if one runs Windows and Tee and the other runs robust
FreeBSD (not to mention independent implementations). Someone should explain
this to Ballmer. Yahoo won't help Microsoft against Google's bread and butter.
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