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My Opinion: Google wants Microsoft to buy Yahoo
I mean when you think about it in terms of the mythical man month and the amount of entropy introduced with a merger its kind of interesting. Plus you have a bunch of processes going on here - consolidation, shift of resource etc. which generally dont win tech wars.
- dkokelley 19y agoGoogle has already publicly stated that they do not want the acquisition to take place. Maybe they wouldn't wish a "fate worse than death" on even their competitors. Maybe Google is waiting for Yahoo to sink to the point where Google could afford it. Brings a whole new perspective on the phrase "Do no evil," doesn't it?
- flashgordon 19y agoI am not sure google would be interested in buying Yahoo the same way intel wouldnt be interested in AMD. Always good to have an underperforming competitor to avoid being labelled as a bully or a monopoly!
- pg 19y agoI don't think it makes much difference, honestly. MSFT and Yahoo individually were a negligible threat. Combined they'd still be a negligible threat.