Comments on: Why Apple will buy Yahoo! http://doughamlin.com/blog/why-apple-will-buy-yahoo/ The worst "blog" on the Internet. Now with more "log." Mon, 09 Aug 2010 01:21:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: doughamlin http://doughamlin.com/blog/why-apple-will-buy-yahoo/comment-page-1/#comment-176 doughamlin Mon, 25 Jan 2010 05:47:17 +0000 http://doughamlin.com/blog/why-apple-will-buy-yahoo/#comment-176 Peter,<br><br>The Microsoft-Yahoo! deal is weak sauce for Big Y! The only reason <br>they did it was because they wanted out of search so they could focus <br>on content and the cloud. They could turn that around with a <br>commitment to search from management. And as of now, Bing isn't yet <br>running Yahoo! search.<br><br>Yahoo! gets 88% of revenue from Bing ads with no gaurantee of revenue. <br>So if Yahoo! gets no traffic they get no revenue from Bing. But Yahoo! <br>still owns their ad network, they're just letting Bing use it.<br><br>Apple could decide they want Yahoo!'s ad network and either rework the <br>Bing deal or commit to doing search. Peter,

The Microsoft-Yahoo! deal is weak sauce for Big Y! The only reason
they did it was because they wanted out of search so they could focus
on content and the cloud. They could turn that around with a
commitment to search from management. And as of now, Bing isn't yet
running Yahoo! search.

Yahoo! gets 88% of revenue from Bing ads with no gaurantee of revenue.
So if Yahoo! gets no traffic they get no revenue from Bing. But Yahoo!
still owns their ad network, they're just letting Bing use it.

Apple could decide they want Yahoo!'s ad network and either rework the
Bing deal or commit to doing search.

]]> By: Peter http://doughamlin.com/blog/why-apple-will-buy-yahoo/comment-page-1/#comment-175 Peter Mon, 25 Jan 2010 04:50:25 +0000 http://doughamlin.com/blog/why-apple-will-buy-yahoo/#comment-175 <I>"BusinessWeek this week reported that Microsoft and Yahoo! are in talks to make Bing the default search engine on the iPhone."</I><br><br>BusinessWeek this week reported that Microsoft is in talks to make Bing the default search engine on the iPhone. I don't know where Yahoo! fit in except that Yahoo! is going to send their search requests to Bing. Since Yahoo! is already on the iPhone (Go to Settings > Safari > Search Engine and you'll see Yahoo!) you could argue that Bing is also on the iPhone. “BusinessWeek this week reported that Microsoft and Yahoo! are in talks to make Bing the default search engine on the iPhone.”

BusinessWeek this week reported that Microsoft is in talks to make Bing the default search engine on the iPhone. I don't know where Yahoo! fit in except that Yahoo! is going to send their search requests to Bing. Since Yahoo! is already on the iPhone (Go to Settings > Safari > Search Engine and you'll see Yahoo!) you could argue that Bing is also on the iPhone.

]]> By: Curmudgeon Geographer http://doughamlin.com/blog/why-apple-will-buy-yahoo/comment-page-1/#comment-174 Curmudgeon Geographer Sun, 24 Jan 2010 12:45:26 +0000 http://doughamlin.com/blog/why-apple-will-buy-yahoo/#comment-174 Why doesn't the iPhone/iPod touch count as "gaming hardware"? Unless what you meant was "console hardware" . . . Just being nitpicky. Why doesn't the iPhone/iPod touch count as “gaming hardware”? Unless what you meant was “console hardware” . . . Just being nitpicky.

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