It seems MSFT is ambitious yet not realistic.  By definition, MSFT
lacks creativity and lives on mature inventions of other companies.
They need to see it up and running, they need to see it making money,
then they jump and buy it for mass production...

As for YHOO, they have the right to refuse the offer if it jeopardizes
the well being of the core business and its employees' well being.
These are 2 factors that will very happen with MSFTs acquisitions.
MSFT will only keep the engineering dept!! Duh.. This is an online
marketing company you're buying and not a rocket scinece department
from NASA.

Well, look at GOOG.. Their search engine is strugling internationally,
and they need to keep the growth momentum going.  Their report
yesterday tells you that there are little to no growth in the US.  A
marriage between GOOG and YHOO makes a lot of sense, a natural fit in
philosophy, in strategy,  and they meet on their despise to MSFT's
creativity.  So, Mr. Yang will be a managing director at GOOG and all
YHOO staff will fit in GOOG.. They might change the name to YAGOO or
GOOHOO with a ticker symbol of HOOG, GOOH, HOGO or GOHO.

Offering a lousy $31 for YHOO, which is less than the avg short sell
price that MSFT is holding on YHOO, is not going to pass.  GOOG might
come with a $40 bid and finish the deal honorably and buy future peace
of mind.

This is just food for thought.

I don't think google would do that, to much trouble and risk at stake
if the do it at 40/shares, they better off use that money to expand
their operation while microsoft (if yahoo accept the offer) need to
clean house and restructure ex-yahoo, so the can operate more
efficient under microsoft and by the time, ex-yahoo ready to help
microsoft to compete, it might be to late, google might come up with
something more efficient search engine and way boost more income, well
who knows.

Just my basic business thought, base on  nothing, just common sense.
What microsoft did, are simply act of desperate and ignorance.

Google doesn't need this piece of shit dying .com. $31 is the best
offer YHOO will ever see...

Google just bid about 40 billion to buy a block of air waves for the
google phones. I doubt they would offer up another 60 billion to buy
Yahoo.

Google would be better off investing the money/programming resources
in FireFox, gOS (thinkgos.com which I don't think currently support)
and elsewhere in Linux.  Traditional software has seen rather modest
growth compared to internet software, but Microsoft's traditional
software currently defaults everything to use their online services.
A lot of people never change their defaults.

As a search engine, Yahoo is terribly bloated.  Returning 10 hits from
Yahoo requires 50% more bandwidth than returning 100 hits from Google,
and 6x-7x more bandwidth than returning 10 hits from Google.  If
they're both at 100 hits, Yahoo still takes 150% more bandwidth.  That
doesn't touch all the junk on their front page or the extra hoops you
jump through to set preferences.  There doesn't seem like a lot to be
had other than the computing hardware, ad agreements and flickr..

1) An attempted GOOG & YHOO merger would call all antitrust enforcers
on the fence!
2) YHOO has *nothing* GOOG could be interested in / need to prosper.

Honestly, just because an idea is *different* doesn't make it a clever
call...

The end of google.lol

Here are a few thoughts.

1.  Google does not buy market share.  They buy technology,
partnership, and other things that extend search. They will get that
market share on the weakness of any of their competitors.

2. The really smart ones at Yahoo that fits into Google's culture will
leave when MS merges with Yahoo.  No point paying extra for what will
come naturally.

3.  44.6B is a large chunk of change... let MS buy Yahoo and blow it's
war chest in one shot then take apart MS by buying smaller and more
promising technology start-ups.   MS will be playing with a short
stack after paying for Yahoo.

Bottom line.... GOOG can not bid on yahoo... antitrust... it won't
happen, look for smaller companies to bid, and then be won over by a
bigger MSFT bid

If this happens...Microsoft buying Yahoo, I wonder how many ex-Yahoo
employees will wind up at Google with internal knowledge of Yahoo's
workings that Microsoft would then own.

All I can say for Google is - One down, one more to go.

GOOG should counter by bidding for bidu...this would make then HUGE in
Asia

The question is, why in the world would GOOG want to own a company as
terrible as Yahoo?

Not even possible. But if Google can make that big of an offer on M&A,
they won't bid for YHOO. They will bid for the other neighbor
nearby... EBAY, which has something they need.

The only merger with another Silicon giant that Eric Schmidt has ever
talked about is AAPLGOO. Not saying that would ever happen, but think
of the branding monopoly...

If GOOG counter offered with $40 a share for YHOO, I'd sell all my
Google stock, and never buy it again.

If only there was some kind of software/service on the Internet, that
one could use to search for accurate information to prevent people
from looking like idiots.  Bet someone could make a lot of money off
of something like that...

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&hs=VDu&q=google+search+internation...
Result #2 = http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=3625072

"struggling internationally..." You must be joking, 50% of their
revenue comes from outside the US, the only problem they have
internationally is that they are second best in China, and they are
closing the gap.

Microsoft simply can't gain any more market share using their
technology so they are buying it instead, which by the time they
figure out how to steer this acquisition Google will be competing on a
different level.

Who ever suggested that Google should aquire Baidu is making much more
sense than this Yahoo counter offer.

Bye bye BIG G it was nice deal with you! we all know that Microsoft is
know for kill it competitors

Google can sit down and see the drama. Next merger EBAY+AMAZON total
controll over the customers.. lol