Microsoft has offered to buy Yahoo for $44.6 billion.
Not sure how this helps Microsoft. All the duplicate services will be a pain, integration a nightmare, which will only loose consumers to Google. I hate to think of the effect this will have Flickr and del.icio.us. As far as online services Google has the better services in my humble opinion. Gmail is infinitely better that Hotmail or advertisement ridden Yahoo Mail. Google Maps is the defacto standard now. Google even has an office suite online called Google Docs. The best thing that Yahoo has is Flickr and del.icio.us, and that was a purchase that they basically left alone. If it is search engine, I mean does anyone really think that they will beat Google at this. Google is so standard for online search that they have their own verb - to ‘google’ something. So, I am just not sure what Microsoft would pay such a premium for Yahoo.
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