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Arun
February 4, 2008 12:43 PM
This is the most foolish move by microsoft. Nothing in the world can change some one from stop using google and insted search on microsoft.
Will
February 4, 2008 01:30 PM
What will purchasing Yahoo achieve for Microsoft? Yahoo's search technology does not rival Google, which is why users already switch to using Google. Google records 70% of all searches, Yahoo 17%, and Microsoft 3%. Combining YHOO and MSFT will give them 20% of the search market. Bad move by MSFT because neither of them has the technology right now to compete with Google.
jz
February 4, 2008 01:47 PM
Google has grown to dominate search because it has been far superior to Yahoo! and Microsoft in striking distribution deals that bring in many more advertisers and much more traffic. But an important contributor to consolidating that advantage has been Google's ability to rapidly design, release, improve, and in some cases abandon products.
In contrast, Yahoo! has been much slower at that cycle, which has contributed to falling behind. Microsoft is legendary for the snail's pace and complicated methodologies employed in engineering products (Vista, anyone?). So expect things to slow down even more if this deal goes through.
Good design results from an inspired flash followed by long periods of small, craftsmanlike refinement. Without that rapid development cycle of quickly getting things out (before all the inspiration can committeed out) followed by continual real-world improvement, I don't think there's much chance of good designs coming out of the Microhoo.
So, no, don't expect Google to lose it's cool factor to this new behemoth. They're much more vulnerable to attack from a new startup freed of the bloat that's starting to bog down even Google.