[LinuxUsers] MSFT - YHOO Deal Worries Some

[Manny]

I heard on the radio that MS gets to keep 80% of ad revenue.  I see
this as weakening Yahoo.

Google got to were they're at by innovating not by stagnating in the
search field.

--Manny

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Greg Nolan<greg at gnolan.com> wrote:
> I'm curious about whose ad platform they are going to use.  I worked
> hard to help roll out project 'Panama' and shudder to think it may be
> taken down.  FWIW, there was a massive exodus of talent from Y! in q1
> of 2008 and since then the company has not moved forward (multiple
> rounds of layoffs and constantly sagging stock).  For Y! to stay
> competitive, they HAD to partner with MS.  I hope my buddies from
> GoTo/Overture/Y!SM (Yahoo! search marketing) land softly.
>
> From Y!:
>
> "Some search Yahoos will have an opportunity to move over to
> Microsoft. Others will remain with us working on the search experience
> and other opportunities, and some, unfortunately, may not. I’m not
> going to beat around the bush about this; there will be layoffs
> related to this decision. I know this is unsettling, and I am very
> sorry about that."
>
> Sucks.
>
> -g
>
> On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 8:18 AM, Chris Thomas <cwt137 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>> Looks like Microsoft and Yahoo finally strike a deal. Even though it is not a merger, it is still a big deal. Yahoo is going to use Microsofts search technology (Bing?). Yahoo used Hadoop to take the webpages they crawled and indexed them.
>> http://developer.yahoo.net/blogs/hadoop/2008/02/yahoo-worlds-largest-production-hadoop.html
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>> Yahoo was one of the biggest contributors to the project. What will their role be now? Because of the search deal  Rasmus, the creator of the PHP language, might be leaving Yahoo, one of the biggest PHP shops. http://twitter.com/rasmus/status/2908526145
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>> There are also the concenrs about less competiton in the search market. The MSFT - YHOO still needs to be approved by the Federal Trade Commission.
>>
>> What do you guys think about the deal?
>>
>> Chris
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