Thursday, July 30, 2009

Dream team up?

So MS finally have Yahoo into its arms. Does that mean it will be better for both of them? Only time will tell. Right now it seems no improvement for Yahoo when their shares plunged 12% after the announcement. It seems there are disappointment over something for investors. As a user myself, I doubt it will be anything but different. Ever since Yahoo closed their Yahoo Photo and came Flickr, which isn't totally free and now they are closing Geocities which is part of the golden days of internet. They close and buy in some other products. How does it benefits users and is that the direction that will bring in more users? Give what users wants and they will be here. As for MS, having Yahoo to support their search engine doesn't seems to be anything different. What can such a team offer on MS's turf? MS's Bing doesn't seems to work up much, add in Yahoo's search will it make any difference? Unless you offer better search results. It remains to be seen if this team up will work for them but I would say to make it work they need to offer what users wants else having two big names just don't make it any tastier when they are solo.

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