Yahsoft in the head

Oh, so the Yahoo! people are going to resist the takeover by Microsoft? Yeah, right. They’ll resist until the offer has so many zeroes after the $1 you can’t count them, or sufficient money that their great-great-grandchildren can become the 22nd Century Paris Hilton act-alikes. As they say everyone has their price. Rabid should admit to a conflict of interest here – the lesser known Rabid Rummage® search engine is also on the market. And we won’t be as narky as those Yahoosers – a billion bucks and it’s all yours Bill. Or near offer over $500.

All the analysts are out and about telling anyone who’ll listen that a merger between Yahoo! and Microsoft just wouldn’t work. They’re probably right but who said anything about a merger? What, if anything has “product fit” got to do with “get Google”? The way we see it, nuking one search engine makes it that much easier to gain some ground on the Google goliath. And surely that’s where Microsoft likes to be – at the top of the tree dropping banana skins on the occupants of the lower branches.

The next question to ask is does it really matter? Almost everybody uses Google on the basis that it’s good enough and mostly gets the information you need. Of course there are those who are just plain ornery and won’t use anything in widespread use by anyone else. Or they won’t use anything produced by a multi-national megalith like Microsoft anyway. And Google is rapidly becoming the same size because all those smarty-pants big-business avoiders won’t use anything else. Oops. So the point was….does it matter if Yahsoft emerges in whatever mangled form if everyone ignores them anyway?

Gotta go! Search engine shares to pump and dump!