Comments on: Microsoft To Buy Yahoo! http://www.psfk.com/2008/02/microsoft-to-buy-yahoo.html Ideas & Trends Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:23:08 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Cristina Mailat http://www.psfk.com/2008/02/microsoft-to-buy-yahoo.html/comment-page-1#comment-11549 Cristina Mailat Fri, 01 Feb 2008 16:25:53 +0000 http://www.psfk.com/2008/02/microsoft-to-buy-yahoo.html#comment-11549 If the deal is closing then this is possible to be the only hope for MS and Yahoo to try to meet the 2008 expectations and to get closer to Google. But let's not forget: 1. The announcement is made with 3 day after Yahoo! reported the fourth quarter and full year 2007 financial results: http://yhoo.client.shareholder.com/common/download/download.cfm?CompanyID=YHOO&FileID=163792&FileKey=d27edf0c-7cd0-476c-9929-2eac03454c6f&FileName=163792.pdf 2. Infact Yahoo had a drastic decrease in share of searches in 2007: http://www.submitsuite.com/blog/search-engine-trends-and-share-of-searches-in-2007-91 If the deal is closing then this is possible to be the only hope for MS and Yahoo to try to meet the 2008 expectations and to get closer to Google. But let’s not forget:

1. The announcement is made with 3 day after Yahoo! reported the fourth quarter and full year 2007 financial results: http://yhoo.client.shareholder.com/common/download/download.cfm?CompanyID=YHOO&FileID=163792&FileKey=d27edf0c-7cd0-476c-9929-2eac03454c6f&FileName=163792.pdf

2. Infact Yahoo had a drastic decrease in share of searches in 2007: http://www.submitsuite.com/blog/search-engine-trends-and-share-of-searches-in-2007-91

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