Comments on: Keep Your Eye on the Yahoo, WPP Ad Partnership; Ignore Carl Icahn http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2008/05/keep-your-eye-on-the-yahoo-wpp-ad-partnership-ignore-carl-icahn.html Internet Marketing News Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:00:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Michelle Greer http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2008/05/keep-your-eye-on-the-yahoo-wpp-ad-partnership-ignore-carl-icahn.html/comment-page-1#comment-47759 Michelle Greer Fri, 16 May 2008 14:26:33 +0000 http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2008/05/keep-your-eye-on-the-yahoo-wpp-ad-partnership-ignore-carl-icahn.html#comment-47759 The biggest loser if Icahn takes over the Yahoo board to sell to Microsoft is the consumer. Yahoo has a sizable developer community. It also vowed recently to open up even more to the developer community with products such as search monkey: http://www.news.com/8301-13953_3-9927876-80.html Basically, Yahoo will never be able to out-Google Google, so they figured by opening up their platforms they could get better work out of the developer community than they could internally. It's really not a bad plan. If Microsoft buys Yahoo, any chance of Google having competition will be over. MSN always seemed to lag behind and even copy Google's search engine technology. Unlike Google, Microsoft doesn't have the focus on search technology that Google has. I just don't see this being good for anyone but Microsoft and its share holders. <em>Michelle Greer's last blog post..<a href='http://www.michellesblog.net/?p=116' rel="nofollow">$20 Will Help a Family Reconnect after the Burma Cyclone</a></em> The biggest loser if Icahn takes over the Yahoo board to sell to Microsoft is the consumer.

Yahoo has a sizable developer community. It also vowed recently to open up even more to the developer community with products such as search monkey:
http://www.news.com/8301-13953_3-9927876-80.html

Basically, Yahoo will never be able to out-Google Google, so they figured by opening up their platforms they could get better work out of the developer community than they could internally. It’s really not a bad plan.

If Microsoft buys Yahoo, any chance of Google having competition will be over. MSN always seemed to lag behind and even copy Google’s search engine technology. Unlike Google, Microsoft doesn’t have the focus on search technology that Google has. I just don’t see this being good for anyone but Microsoft and its share holders.

Michelle Greer’s last blog post..$20 Will Help a Family Reconnect after the Burma Cyclone

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