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Google Ends Microsoft's Yahoo Search

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Microsoft and Yahoo were pushed to the brink of a multibillion-dollar marriage and then to a sudden breakup this weekend by the same player.

A combined Microsoft-Yahoo would create a powerful competitor, and Google early on indicated that it would fight the merger on antitrust grounds in Washington and Brussels.

But Google played a part in killing the deal, for now at least, by acting more as friend than foe. It offered to let Yahoo use its more sophisticated search advertising technology, which by some estimates would have meant $1 billion in additional cash flow a year for Yahoo. The partnership would also bring Google more revenue.
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Expy - 595 days 22 hours ago
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Way to shove it in Microsoft's face Google! haha
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KingItachi - 595 days 19 hours ago
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Google you sly dog :)
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v1c1ous - 595 days 19 hours ago
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3 - whatever MS/yahoo do, Google will win in the end
checkmate
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Armyless - 595 days 18 hours ago
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4 - Microsoft may not be able to muscle in this time.
Microsoft's shorthanded techniques are bending to a choreographed tag team with Google and Yahoo.
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jaja1434 - 595 days 18 hours ago
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Whats short handed about trying to buy out a company?
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DomUltra - 595 days 18 hours ago
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Because that's all they do, they're ruthless tactics just end up being fodder, money buys the world, and apparently, this proves it's not entirely true.
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jaja1434 - 595 days 17 hours ago
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That's all most companies do, so aside from the fact that they are bigger and thus have more money to do such take overs they are not doing anything any other company wouldn't do. But I guess it's common to hate the big bad wolf. So well meh.
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Armyless - 595 days 1 hour ago
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4.4 - jaja- I've followed Microsoft since the very first OS
Their strong-arm business tactics (and anti-trust suits) are a secret to only you, it seems.
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jaja1434 - 594 days 3 hours ago
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I don't recall ever saying they didn't use such tactics... Only that I have yet to meet a company that does not use the tactics, to some varying degree.
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ElementX - 595 days 18 hours ago
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I like Google, they're just afraid of a merger, though. Who searches the web these days? I have all my porn links bookmarked ;)
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5.1 kevin1122 | 595 days 17 hours ago - User only got 1 bubble - Show
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ElementX - 595 days 17 hours ago
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I'm glad I brightened someone's day/evening/night
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Tyrael - 595 days 16 hours ago
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Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.
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karlostomy - 595 days 14 hours ago
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7 - The courts should break google into separate companies
Just like they did with Microsoft

Google is using its dominant size advantage to outmuscle new innovative competitors. (ie Microsoft)

After all what applies legally to MS business practices should apply equally to all?

right?
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Kyur4ThePain - 594 days 3 hours ago
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7.1 - Missing link
Sorry, you're not even in the right neighborhood with that comment.
The internet doesn't come with just Google's search engine. If that were the case, I would agree with you.
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