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Double Down, But Only On The Right Hand
- pedalpete 17y agoI normally comment on Fred's blog, but it looks like Disqus is down. I actually somewhat disagree with both Fred and Jason on this. Fred is right that investing in search would have been the wrong move. But I think both are looking at the deal as if Microsoft was buying Yahoo! Search Technology, which is not the case. So I'd be looking at this from an indirect approach and saying what did/should/would Yahoo! do to have increased the value of their audience to a search technology. In some ways, Yahoo! only brought audience and got out of the search technology business which they were clearly loosing. Do we really expect Bing to learn much from Yahoo search? In the last 4 years, has Yahoo! really had a chance in this space? I'm not sure what Yahoo! should/could/would/did to increase the value of their audience to Microsoft. Any ideas?
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