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Old 05-06-08, 06:06 PM   #13 (permalink)
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Re: Microsoft Withdraws Bid for Yahoo

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Originally Posted by rathi View Post
There would have been little point in the buyout. Microsoft has absolutely no skill at all in dealing with the internet. MSN is an expensive joke. The only useful thing they could do would be to make Yahoo the default search engine on Internet Explorer. Yahoo couldn't even use Microsoft's obscene amounts of cash to have a chance against google in the search market, given the non-traditional marketplace.
Whether they like it or not, Yahoo and MSFT have lost the search war. The only real way for them to survive is to move into Video and content providing.
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