I perhaps one of the exceptions on hackernews (at least seems that way), to think that this perhaps is a good alternative for yahoo. The other possiblity is tha

I perhaps one of the exceptions on hackernews (at least seems that way), to think that this perhaps is a good alternative for yahoo. The other possiblity is that yahoo could go on being independent for anouther 3-5 years and be continually dominated by Google. Listening to Jerry Yang CES keynote was hardly optmistic, and if I was a shareholder watching that i'd have been disappointed. Google is going from $300,$400,$500,$600, to even $700/share. And prior to Microsoft annoucement, YHOO shares fallen back to a price they were trading at 4 years ago. Not only that, you consider over the years, Yahoo has had more then good opportunities to buyout big companies when they were small like Google and Ebay, and the recent future Facebook (which is small but could very well become big one day). This is obviously not a match made in heaven with Microsoft and Yahoo. But there are clearly facts here. If you think Yahoo is only temporarily at low point in their history and sooner or later they'll bounce back, then Microsoft should not pass off the opportunity to buy them now. If you think their at a low point, and they could possible go lower, then God damn, they should looking for mergers rather than choosing to die a slow an painlful death at the hands of Google. Lets for a moment(if possible) stop thinking like mere coders and pretend as least to think like astute businessmen.