Skip to main content

Yahoo and Google- get it over with!

I have written once before on how Yahoo was making some good moves in terms of phasing out unprofitable lines of business and increasing focus on core business functions.

Yesterday it was announced that Yahoo CEO Terry Semel had resigned and would be replaced with Yahoo founder Jerry Yang. Investors initially cheered this news but then concluded that Jerry Yang did not represent enough of a change. The stock ended today down 1.7%.

The bloggers and analysts are now speculating on potential directions for Yahoo. Mergers with or acquisitions by Time Warner, Microsoft and the other usual suspects have been mentioned.

My opinion is that Google should spend some of their billions and acquire Yahoo. The two companies are completely complementary. Google offers the dominant search and online advertising platforms on the web. Who needs Yahoo's Panama when you can sign up with Google?

Google realizes they need to augment their presence with more content; hence, the purchase of YouTube. Yahoo has tons of content. They are the most visited site on the web. Their financial, email, news, shopping, Flickr photosharing site and other features are far more popular than similar features offered by Google.

Why should these two companies compete head to head when a combination would create an Internet powerhouse? Come on, Google! Buy Yahoo and get it over with.
Labels:

Comments

mdmcginn said…
Maybe more people visit Yahoo than any other site. But that doesn't mean that everybody visits Yahoo. Visits there make up only a tiny fraction of all visits to websites, after all. It has lots of goodies, but until it has better search capabilities, I will continue to avoid it - mostly because it's cluttered with goodies. As a Standard & Poor's analyst put it, Yahoo has had stability. But stability is not enough.

-- Michael from the U.S. Desk at TheNewsRoom.com
June 20, 2007 at 1:33:00 AM EDT
TradeRadarOperator said…
Michael, I agree that Yahoo's search capabilities don't measure up to Google's. That's one of the reasons I believe a combination of the two companies would be compelling.
June 20, 2007 at 10:10:00 PM EDT

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Brazil - in a bubble or on a roll?

A couple of years ago, no one recognized the real estate bubble even though it was under everyone's nose. Now, analysts and bloggers are seeing bubbles everywhere they look. One of them, they say is in Brazil whose Bovespa stock market index has doubled in the last 12 months. Does the bubble accusation hold water? I don't think so and here are 7 reasons why Brazil is by no means a bubble economy: Exports have held up over the past year thanks to demand from China for Brazil's soya exports and iron ore. This was helped by the the Brazilian government's drive to improve trade links with Asia and Africa. Export diversification, spurred by a more active trade policy and increased focus on "south-south" trade under current president Lula, helped mitigate the decline in demand from OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) countries A "sensible" economic framework has been in place since the 1990's. This has included inflation
4 comments
Read more

Unlock Stock Market Profits - Key #1

This is the first in an ongoing series of articles where I discuss what I feel are keys to successful investing. It is based on a post that provides a summary of the ten keys that individual investors should use to identify profitable stock trades. ( Click here to read the original post ) There are two basic steps to investing. First, you need to find stocks that seem to have some potential. Then you have to determine whether these stocks are actually good investments. There are many stocks that at first glance look interesting, but further research reveals that there are too many negatives to warrant taking a position. This first post in the series starts at the beginning: getting good investment ideas. Key #1: If something special is happening to a stock, it will be reflected in some kind of unusual activity in the markets. As individual investors, we will never be the first to know; however, unusual activity can be an early sign that allows us to follow the Wall Street professional
20 comments
Read more

Unlock Stock Market Profits - Key #4

This is the fourth article in a series of posts describing 10 tools to help you identify and evaluate good investing ideas. It is based on a post that provides a summary of the ten keys that individual investors should use to identify profitable stock trades. ( Click here to read the original post ) With this fourth post, we will continue another step along the path of finding stocks that seem to have some potential. The first post in the series discussed how to use unusual activity to identify investing ideas. The second post described how to use stock screeners. The third post described how to use lists of new highs and new lows. This post will focus on identifying social or business trends in order to find investing ideas. Information on new trends might turn up anywhere. In conversation with friends or business associates, in newspapers or magazines, on TV or though your work. The key is to be aware of trends and how they start, stop or change. We'll start by describing what
11 comments
Read more