Posted on 05/04/2007 1:03:56 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
Google’s runaway success in the search-engine business on Friday threatened to spark an upheaval in the online media world, as it emerged that Microsoft has made a tentative takeover approach to internet group Yahoo.
Talks between the two, though said by people familiar with the situation to be at an early stage, have been prompted by an acceleration in the shift of audience and advertisers online, and Microsoft’s failure to build effective search engine and online advertising arms of its own, say analysts and industry executives.
News of the bid approach capped a week of upheaval in the media industry, as both new and old media companies tried to catch up with the shift towards digital forms of consumption. Reuters on Friday said it had received a bid approach, thought to have come from Canadian publisher Thomson, while Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp rocked the newspaper world earlier this week with its unsolicited bid for Dow Jones, whose assets include the internet’s biggest paid-subscription site and one of Reuters’ main newswire competitors.
Yahoo’s shares jumped 17 per cent early on Friday on news of the talks, valuing the company at more than $44bn. However, the shares are still about 25 per cent below their level at the start of last year. Microsoft’s shares fell by nearly 2 per cent......"
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Nobody you know uses Yaho mail or yahoo messenger? I kind of find that unlikely, considering yahoo messenger is the largest instant messenger service(followed by msn). Yahoo search I believe, but they are more than search.
Actual upon further search, Alexa says the top two websites in english by number of hits are MSN and Yahoo,Google is third.
http://www.alexa.com/site/ds/top_sites?ts_mode=lang⟨=en
I have always used
Google (or sites Google bought).
The folks that I know
that did use Yahoo
have all shifted to Google.
Don't know what's trendy.
Lots of people use Yahoo whether you know them or not.
Well I use google for most of my searches, yahoo for everything else. I tell you one thing though www.live.com is actually a very good and intuitive search engine by micro$oft, I have found myself using it more and more because I am not wading through five pages because of google bombing for hits on googles site.
there goes my free email. Ba$tard. More money than god and he wants more.
Quantcast ranks Yahoo first, at 117m US monthly uniques; Google second, at 114m; MSN third, at 65m; and Microsoft.com fourth, at 60m. Google's traffic is more heavily concentrated in search than the other sites'.
Doesn't MS still have HotMail, which is free?
Yes, and it's received an overhaul recently. But Gmail is still hands-down better. Especially on spam filtering.
BTW, you no longer need an invite to get a Gmail account.
Uhh MS offers free email now, it’s not they will stop offering free email.
“Uhh MS offers free email now, it’s not they will stop offering free email”
Guess the can not stop huh? That is my point, when one guy owns the cow, the milk is not free.
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