Comments on: Acts Of Desperation: Potential Google – Yahoo! Deal

By: Yahoo! Actions Not In The Best Interest Of Shareholders | AccuraCast Search Daily News

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 18:30:07 +0000

[...] This fact was revealed following a complaint, filed by lawyers representing shareholders of Yahoo!, alleging that the board of directors at Yahoo! purposefully acted to discourage the Microsoft offer. In fact, the papers reveal that even as far back as January 2007, the then CEO, Terry Semel, had rejected Microsoft’s offer of $40 per share! [...]

By: Yahoo! Board Threatened As Icahn Supporters Rally | AccuraCast Search Daily News

Tue, 27 May 2008 11:48:46 +0000

[...] Yahoo! is trying to fend of Icahn’s advances to replace the board by delaying their 3 July 2008 shareholders meeting to the end of the month. In the meantime the current board of directors at Yahoo! need to either fix an alternative deal with Microsoft buying only part of the company or an advertising agreement with Google that could inject $1 billion revenue per year. [...]

By: Microsoft Withdraws Yahoo! Offer | AccuraCast Search Daily News

Microsoft Withdraws Yahoo! Offer | AccuraCast Search Daily News — Tue, 06 May 2008 17:35:26 +0000

[...] In his letter to Jerry Yang, CEO and founder of Yahoo!, Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, clearly mentions that Yaho!’s deal with Google would mean harming the effectiveness of Yahoo! Search Marketing’s paid search platform, Panama. It would make it difficult to retain Yahoo!’s talented engineers, and also give complete dominance to Google, with regard to search advertising rates. [...]

By: henrry134

henrry134 — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 20:53:56 +0000

Pay Per Click search engines are an effective way to attract cheap, targeted traffic to your website. Search engine enables you to list your site at the top of the search results according to the keyword bid.

By: J Walter

J Walter — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:31:27 +0000

I think the idea of open marketing bidding for advertising on Yahoo! is a good idea.