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So, they want to buy Yahoo just because they can't hire sales people? yeah, makes a lot of sense.
by gcb 15y ago
So, they want to buy Yahoo just because they can't hire sales people?
yeah, makes a lot of sense.
- pedalpete 15y agono, they buy Yahoo! so that a competitor doesn't replace Bing as the search which powers Yahoo!. The Y! brand will continue to exist for a long-time. I don't think this is a case of Microsoft buying them and shutting them down. The dollar value of Yahoo to Bing is significant, and only by having those users, is MS able to improve on Bing and get some revenue from it.
- robryan 15y agoI'd be very surprised if that actually happened, seems like it has been a lengthy integration process that isn't yet complete in all locales.
- gcb 15y agothat's a very good point. never though about it that way. yahoo should just raise the price for the next round of the deal instead of selling then.
- ahi 15y agoLast I checked their adCenter required Windows and threw up a complaint about nonstandards compliant browsers (like Chrome). They are completely lost.
- tomwalsham 15y agoadCenter blocks non-IE browsers, but ludicrously doesn't actually use any proprietary MSIE code - a simple user-agent spoof gets it working 100% in Firefox.
- mgkimsal 15y agoI just used it a month ago from FF6 on OSX and it worked fine. Well... as fine as adcenter works. I found it a little confusing at first, and often times clicks seemed to take a while to register. UI on it isn't great, but it certainly functioned.
- gcb 15y agoand buying yahoo helps that how? most yahoo customers are being redirected to adcenter anyway.