It's happened before and it'll happen again. The owners and associated folks never had any feeling of obligation to us internet users. Look at it the way they do. They will benefit in any case. It's a disposable business. Now they can move on to some other venture.
Yahoo For Sale
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Well when google pulls the old bait and switch it happens. They came out and didn't have ads all over. There was no noise, just search and results. Everyone thought, "Hey, yeah, I don't like ads all over. Just give me my results!" and google did.. for a while...
It's perfectly reasonable to think a company could usurp google just as they did yahoo. Keep it clean and with a light social integration and I think they win. Google can be beat but it would take sickly deep pockets to get any word out since google owns the internet right now and could pull most ads they don't want people seeing..
18bn market cap? cheap as chips
let's buy it for link juice =D
but no seriously for the 4th most popular website in the world 18bn market cap is cheap
let's buy it for link juice =D
but no seriously for the 4th most popular website in the world 18bn market cap is cheap
Why sell, they're even expanding as more and more read yahoo articles and Facebook is helping with that.
The only way this is interesting is if Facebook buys them. Google and/or Microsoft would just absorb/liquidate them. Anyone else I could think of wouldn't have the resources or brand power to do anything interesting.
The only reason the company "has been run successfully" is because they were first, and there was no real competition. As soon as competition showed up they went to shits. Aside from free email, which was valuable in 99, and somewhat OK directory, which was also valuable in 99, when search engines sucked, they produced nothing. They have no legit products, how can they survive?
