Microsoft has made 44,6 billion dollar bid on Yahoo. It’s two of the biggest companies in the world.
I’m one of these Microsoft haters, I don’t understand why they should own everything :(.
On Friday night Googles managing director Eric Schmidt called Yahoo and offered to help them to get away from Microsoft. It’s a good solution.
If anyone should buy Yahoo it’s Google. They can make things that work, Microsoft can’t.
“Could Microsoft now attempt to exert the same sort of inappropriate and illegal influence over the Internet that it did with the PC?”
That’s written on Googles official blog. If Microsoft buy Yahoo the whole web can change, that’s not good for us freelancers :/.
Google controls around 65% of the search marketing in USA and 85% in Europe. Microsoft and Yahoo would be much smaller, 30% in USA and 10%. But that is still much and would affect most of the things that’s going on on the web. It would be a big difference for the search marketing.
I hope Microsoft won’t buy Yahoo. We’ll see in a few days what will happen…
Stay tuned for more information,
Leox