Comments on: How Yahoo! Walked Away from $44.6 Billion

By: Jordi

Jordi — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 00:27:19 +0000

The guys at yahoo are too arrogant to realize that they have been falling from the top of the business since a long time and will fall even deeper if they don’t do something drastic about it.
Microsoft made them an offer they couldn’t refuse ($33 per share), but yahoo’s blind arrogance was too big at the time.
Let’s see what Microsoft’s next move is.

In my opinion, it is going to be good for the webmasters to have someone like microhoo competing with google. Right now, there isn’t anyone.

By: plat0

plat0 — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 13:10:03 +0000

Yahoo!

Give us all a break.

It is far too clumsy ( not to mention rickety ) in all services I have used in the past ( other than email which is good enough – but no more than that ).

For example, its absurdly intrusive and heavy handed security paranoia slows its ridiculously censored searches ( and overall navigation – especially internal ) down so much it would be laughable if it were not for the intense irritation caused to this busy ( and somewhat overworked ) researcher.

Then we find that the quality of the results it does finally pull so typically low-grade that I have personally not only completely abondoned ( and God knows I tried ) this Titanic blunder of a company in favour of Google’s outstanding proficiency, but also spit on it’s ( hopefully imminant ) corporate grave.

I could go on..

But, you catch my drift I am sure.

By: max

max — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 10:57:56 +0000

yahoo will never learn it. they are on a level like the credit sharks in the 1970-80. pull money now and dont care. I applied for this overture stuff some years ago. the first thing what this yahoo did was pull euro 50,- from my account. I managed to get this back, after I forgot yahoo, google adsense was $ 5,- to join. last week I sent them a e-mail to check if maybe I consider their ad stuff again, the e-mail coming back was more or less, we dont know, we are not responsible after they put 3 links I should check. I have over 100 websites, all of them are submitted to yahoo, google, MS every month. they are all at google, many with page rank 1-6, they are at MS somewhere but only about 10% of them are listed in yahoo, ect. to my opinion yahoo is a very bad manged company on a level of a kindergarten !! etc.

By: John at WebsiteBuildingBiz

John at WebsiteBuildingBiz — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 11:24:40 +0000

I was really kind of hoping that the deal between Yahoo and Google would go through. It may have increased ad costs on Yahoo, but it probably would have also eased pressure on Google ad prices will giving more revenue to the publishers that display the ads. Well, I guess the Justice Department thought otherwise.

Yahoo’s future doesn’t look so great, but I agree that one of the keys to re-invigorating the brand will be a clean sweep of upper management and some new ideas at the helm.

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