1000 of the Happiest People in America
February 1st, 2008 | Thought of the Day, Yahoo
This blog post brought to you by: Ron Wicker
Based on the post just made on Microsoft to buy Yahoo, it made me realize that this news made about 1,000 people extremely happy.
Yahoo was talking about laying off 20% of it’s workforce, which roughly came out to around 1,000 people. While I have no idea where that decision stands, it had to make about 1,000 Yahoo employees some of the happiest people in America.
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I think it made more than 1000 people happy because the price per share offered was way over Thursday’s closing quotes.
And if this really works and they take a large part of the SE pie from Google I think it will make even more people happy (and some miserable, namely Google employees).
MS is after more then the search engine crowd, they are after the advertsing $$. Yahoo ads are only on Yahoo site pages, MS has adCenter, the equivilant of Googles adsense/adwors. Currently MS only has 4% of the SE market so gaining Yahoo is a hudge boost to the ad$$.
The shareholders would definitely be happy but I am not sure about the employees. My gut feeling is that this will lead to many more redundancies than the proposed 1000. As the two search engines merge, there will be a lot of excess staff. Bill Gates left in good time so that he will not be remembered as the “hatchet man”
Google is a monopolistic advertising link farm, the largest, whose fascist like policies against websites veils the fact that it offers no more than a homogenous mix of fabricated advertising on sites that exist solely for their benefit in the vast majority of search results. Google’s lack of programming skills or investment in it, is played off against the webmasters with rules and penalties for jamming a system fraught with failures. If you try to get ahead you are banned. If you make a mistake you are exiled forever. The only way they can work is using secrecy with both advertisers and publishers. Google is blind paid links, links you have no control over on your site, the cost, or the income. Linkworth allows you to CHOOSE whom you link with and communicate direct if you want. Who is really selling a pig in a poke? Anyone with 80 percent of the market (like MS for software) is a monopoly and Google is no different. The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Who else is up for making competition?
I’d love it if this were to actually happen. I just read this morning that Google may very well try to outbid Microsoft to acquire Yahoo but antitrust regulators probably wouldn’t allow that to happen.
Google will complain about the potential tie-up between MSN and Yahoo simply to try to slow things down so that it can bring out gadgets and new technology to compete once more. Stronger competition will be a good thing for Google customers, even if not necessarily for its shareholders.
Well, I’m better looking than them so, yeah, I guess I’m happier.
More modest, too.
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