Comments on: Yahoo! Rejects Microsoft Offer http://www.phoenixrealm.com/yahoo-rejects-microsoft-offer/ Search Engine Optimisation SEO Blog - Website Design Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:47:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Mark http://www.phoenixrealm.com/yahoo-rejects-microsoft-offer/#comment-5945 Mark Tue, 12 Feb 2008 14:25:48 +0000 http://www.phoenixrealm.com/yahoo-rejects-microsoft-offer/#comment-5945 On it being the "merge(r)" of the century -- possible, but not always a good thing. The industry has seen many other big mergers that did not bear fruitful results. AOL - Time Warner anyone? How this affects the search engine industry is that now Microsoft is put in a difficult position. By offering to buy Yahoo they admitted that they could not put a good fight with Google. Yahoo could have been their salvo, but now that Yahoo has "rejected" their bid, they're put in a very difficult place. On it being the “merge(r)” of the century — possible, but not always a good thing. The industry has seen many other big mergers that did not bear fruitful results. AOL - Time Warner anyone?

How this affects the search engine industry is that now Microsoft is put in a difficult position. By offering to buy Yahoo they admitted that they could not put a good fight with Google. Yahoo could have been their salvo, but now that Yahoo has “rejected” their bid, they’re put in a very difficult place.

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