Comments on: Breaking News: Microsoft Bids $44.6bn for Yahoo!

By: Balanced News Blog

Balanced News Blog — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 16:59:40 +0000

Microsoft Makes Offer for Yahoo!…

Microsoft has offered to buy the search engine company Yahoo for $44.6bn (Â£22.4bn) in cash and shares.
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By: Yahoo Board Rejects Microsoft’s Bid | Connected Internet

Yahoo Board Rejects Microsoft’s Bid | Connected Internet — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 13:49:25 +0000

[...] to the Wall Street Journal, Yahoo’s board will be declining Microsoft’s offer of $44.6 billion [...]

By: On Microsoft, Google and Fear | Connected Internet

On Microsoft, Google and Fear | Connected Internet — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 19:44:23 +0000

[...] news regarding Microsoft’s offer to buy out Yahoo shouldn’t surprise anyone. LiveSearch is almost irrelevant as a search engine, and MSN has [...]

By: Smackall

Smackall — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 04:43:29 +0000

From my point of view. MS is not planning to drive search Engine traffic from yahoo, but its trying to use the good traffic with its advertising strategy. Speaking about Yahoo, its not a search engine company, as you people speak about the number of visitors it drives into your site. Might be MS has a mega plan to combine all the services into live.com and make live as a better place. :) Ofcourse their plan would be to earn more money from their advertisers.

By: Robbert

Robbert — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 22:23:49 +0000

I think it’s an interesting move by Microsoft. But I still don’t think they could ever touch Google’s dominance. In the Netherlands Google holds a market share of 94%.

MSN, or Live Search, only has some market share, because they implement it in every single application.

But maybe it will cause some nice competition in the rest of the world!

By: Kline

Kline — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 18:25:40 +0000

Oh, and live.com follows yahoo’s traffic type, with 77% in mail, and 2% in search (as does msn).

So, while all these sites are big, they all primarily trafficed by mail users.

Google will still dominate them in search traffic by 6x which is a lot of ground to catch up. Though, I daresay it will probably be profitable in mail ads alone, especially since they are the ones brokering the ads (unlike the facebook/msn deal where msn takes 40% off the top)

By: Kline

Kline — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 18:13:14 +0000

You are correct in that referrals from yahoo are soo small compared to google, even if you add in MS, it doesnt add up.

stats (rounded):
google 13,000
yahoo 800
live 700
msn 400

however, according to alexa (yes there are issues, but on a scale this big it becomes more accurate) yahoo and google are neck and neck and add in live/msn and you are easily on top in terms of largest ad generating space on the web ;)Ive always wondered how yahoo could keep so close to google on alexa.. seemed strange to me.. maybe yahoo mail, and some of the non search properties are really quite big.

oh, check this out
Where people go on Yahoo.com:
mail.yahoo.com 46%
search.yahoo.com 14%

which would explain why we get no referrals, but the site is still enormous.

google on the other hand is flipped
google.com (search) 59%
mail.google.com 19%

Interesting, eh?

By: mlankton

mlankton — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 15:59:40 +0000

ps.
I’m getting first page serps on Yahoo as well as Google.

By: mlankton

mlankton — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 15:58:05 +0000

How many people a day does Yahoo send you? Google?

Maybe it’s me, but my site and my friend JD’s site get a flood of people from Google, but only a handful of people from Yahoo and Live. Maybe Google has the market on educated, affluent people with money to burn on luxury items.

If Yahoo gets more search traffic than Google, tell me what I’m doing wrong, because on a day Google sends me 600 people, I’ll get 16 from Yahoo.

By: Everton

Everton — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 14:14:16 +0000

Market share data

By: Mark from Bloglyne

Mark from Bloglyne — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 13:57:06 +0000

Taps for Google…???

@mlankton – where are you getting your stats? According to the stuff I’m looking at Google trades places up & down with Yahoo, and MSN is about two-thirds the volume of both of them – the way I see it this would dominate Google by about 30% – 35%

Really interesting move by Microsoft (not saying this is a good thing, just interesting…)

By: mlankton

mlankton — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 13:35:35 +0000

MSN and Yahoo account for a pretty small percentage of search engine users compared to Google. Is Microsoft so interested in Yahoo’s portal that they think it’s worth that much? It is still the most trafficked site on the web, but $44B?

By: Watch hindi movies

Watch hindi movies — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 13:29:53 +0000

OMG
google s position as search engine master will be challenged

if that happens have to switch to some chinese search engine (baidu or whatever) instead of MSN