Future of Yahoo

Yahoo is out the door as a search engine. Their focus is on being a portal now. Has been for a long time. Bing is the first real competition Google has had in a very long time. That is what has Google so freaked out right now.

Its not looking good for Yahoo because Bing has already caught them. It will remain to be seen whether the Bing users will stay there!

yahoo is much better then microsoft. i'm a web designer now google is best for me. Google is the most-used search engine on the web. it is very fast.

Google and Msn each have some special strings that seems to be unique for their engine, Yahoo lacks a lot of the advanced search features that Msn and / or Google offers

But I think google is no.1

Yahoo is definitely better than Microsoft. I don't think they should merge.

I would like to say no acquire would happen for currently Microsoft has Bing.com just released! Such acquire might happen if Bing.com might failure just as live.com!

in my opinion, Jerry Yang suffers from emotional attachment. He is one of the founders of Yahoo. He looks on Yahoo as his company and he doesn’t want to see anything he views as bad happen to it. He came in with a strong vision for the company, but practically none of what he said has come to fruition. Instead, we see executives leaving the company and Yahoo trying desperately to keep Microsoft off it’s back – despite it being in the best interests of the shareholders. It is understandable that Yang, as a founder, has an emotional attachment to the company. But, this can get in the way of doing what is best and I personally believe that is what happened here. The ball was dropped out of pride. Yahoo went with perhaps the worse possible outcome – outsourcing their revenue to their competitor.

If Microsoft wanted to buy Yahoo to be #2 in the search field, they may just have done it anyway. Yahoo’s poor choices means the value of Yahoo has dropped quite a bit. It helps Google by growing their already large piece of the online advertising pie. It helps Microsoft because Yahoo is now seen as a floundering company. Perhaps Microsoft can come in later and now purchase Yahoo at an even cheaper price than they originally offered because Yahoo’s value has tanked so much.

Yahoo will be worse when it's owned by Microsoft.Just look at what they've done with their own search engine msn.com, it sucks.Microsoft shouldn't buy anything else for the good of computer and internet users everywhere.

Yahoo had the chance to be bigger than it is at the instant, it threw it all off, MSN know what to do with Yahoo, I hope they achiever in purchasing it.