If a merger with Yahoo made sense a few months/weeks ago, it would still make sense today, at least from a market share perspective. But perhaps the inside look at how the two corporate cultures would clash and crash is what is making Microsoft executives exclaim their desire for Yahoo to be dead.
Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie joined the bandwagon of those from his company saying that Microsoft doesn't need-no-stinkin'-Yahoo to become a force in the search engine market.Some kind of deal with Yahoo was hinted at, but in a cool sort of way, a story from IDG News Service reports. Ozzie instead thinks that disruptive technology is the way to beat Googe, such as semantic search.
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buying Yahoo makes LESS than Zero sense
Why not take a lot fewer of those Billions that buying Yahoo would cost and turn some of those smart programmers loose to build a BETTER search/categorization engine and web portal. Give ME a COUPLE of those billions and I can hire people to out-google Yahoo.
Argh.