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Microsoft shaking down Yahoo, your thoughts?
Software giant Microsoft is trying to shake down Yahoo in a combat like strategy to build up enough power to weaken the next global giant, Google. What are your thoughts?
I love Yahoo, but I use Google, and I use Microsoft products. Much like many other people, I feel as if when Microsoft does take over Yahoo it will depreciate all the good things about it. I think Yahoo has much potential, selling out to anyone would just be going backwards after all the time and technology spent in building it.
I think the net's giants are all trying to battle over who is more popular in terms of ads, searching and providing users with a unique experience, but what if Microsoft does take Yahoo? I think Google would still surpass Microsoft's plan to become "#1" much like they used to back in the Windows 95 days.
Eh, I guess I'm just bored and venting.
Your thoughts? comments? :)
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- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Yahoo has some strong points, but it has been slacking some lately.
I rarely use Yahoo for browser searches. I almost exclusively use Google for that.
And for example, areas like this one (Answers), really the wiki site is much better for real information and less erratic behaviour. This Answers site has a big problem with arbitrary removal of content. I realise that is due to automation. But if wiki can overcome it, so can Yahoo.
Whether Microsoft will improve or degrade Yahoo is debatible. Microsoft has its finger in too many pies in my opinion to do really well with any of them. Even Linux is making headway against Microsoft...and Linux is open source.