I heard on the radio that MS gets to keep 80% of ad revenue.  I see
this as weakening Yahoo.

Google got to were they're at by innovating not by stagnating in the
search field.

--Manny

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Greg Nolan<[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm curious about whose ad platform they are going to use.  I worked
> hard to help roll out project 'Panama' and shudder to think it may be
> taken down.  FWIW, there was a massive exodus of talent from Y! in q1
> of 2008 and since then the company has not moved forward (multiple
> rounds of layoffs and constantly sagging stock).  For Y! to stay
> competitive, they HAD to partner with MS.  I hope my buddies from
> GoTo/Overture/Y!SM (Yahoo! search marketing) land softly.
>
> From Y!:
>
> "Some search Yahoos will have an opportunity to move over to
> Microsoft. Others will remain with us working on the search experience
> and other opportunities, and some, unfortunately, may not. I’m not
> going to beat around the bush about this; there will be layoffs
> related to this decision. I know this is unsettling, and I am very
> sorry about that."
>
> Sucks.
>
> -g
>
> On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 8:18 AM, Chris Thomas <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Looks like Microsoft and Yahoo finally strike a deal. Even though it is not 
>> a merger, it is still a big deal. Yahoo is going to use Microsofts search 
>> technology (Bing?). Yahoo used Hadoop to take the webpages they crawled and 
>> indexed them.
>> http://developer.yahoo.net/blogs/hadoop/2008/02/yahoo-worlds-largest-production-hadoop.html
>>
>> Yahoo was one of the biggest contributors to the project. What will their 
>> role be now? Because of the search deal  Rasmus, the creator of the PHP 
>> language, might be leaving Yahoo, one of the biggest PHP shops. 
>> http://twitter.com/rasmus/status/2908526145
>>
>> There are also the concenrs about less competiton in the search market. The 
>> MSFT - YHOO still needs to be approved by the Federal Trade Commission.
>>
>> What do you guys think about the deal?
>>
>> Chris
>>
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