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 >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> LinuxUsers mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > [email protected] > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers >
