Comments on: Yahoo picks AOL over Microsoft

By: Google AdSense Down

Google AdSense Down — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 20:56:48 +0000

[...] Digg us too! Thanks for visiting and hope you come back again! Yesterday we reported that Yahoo! is thinking about partnering with AOL and using Google’s Adsense program instead of its own to boost [...]

By: Robert-Reinder Nederhoed

Robert-Reinder Nederhoed — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 14:34:22 +0000

Because Google owns 5% of AOL? Don’t they?

By: Jochem Prins

Jochem Prins — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 08:48:44 +0000

At this point I can’t really say if I would prefer a MS/Y! or a AOL/Y! merge. To be honest, I think both options would have a negative impact on Yahoo’s culture.

Actually, what worries me most about this story is:
“A deal with Time Warner and AOL would be part of a multi-pronged strategy by Yahoo in which it would outsource Web search advertising operations to Google Inc”.

On the short term, Yahoo! will most definitely gain more revenue on their sponsored listings when they outsource to Google. But why not extend their own platform in cooperation with Time Warner? Compete with Google, that’s what I would like to see.

By: Robert-Reinder Nederhoed

Robert-Reinder Nederhoed — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 22:04:41 +0000

With only my underbelly as an argument: anything but MS.

I like Yahoo. I do not know AOL well. MS’ time has come to shrink. In my opinion. As long as they’re getting fines from the EU, I will not trust that company.
Big changes have to happen for that sentiment to disappear. Their engagement in dataportability is a start.

Boris, any predictions on the influence of this rumor on stock value?

By: Scott Rafer

Scott Rafer — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 21:33:05 +0000

I completely disagree. Y!OL has at least some chance of improving together and competing. MS would not gain any of the synergies. They are too aggressive and could not move at all in Y!’s cultural direction. They’d kill it and not retain any value at all.