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REMant 07/31/2009 01:38 PM Report
I don't know who really benefits from this deal. It is apparent to me, however, that they need each other. As I said the other day, they need to work on searching as much as on advertising. Yahoo stockholders might have been better off if they had sold out. I think Yahoo does a much better job with its other offerings - mail, maps, shopping, groups, etc - than M$, and it would have been better if they had gotten out of that business, too. Perhaps that is the way this thing will go. I don't know why M$ has so much trouble with this side of things, but I am tempted to say because of a long-standing corporate culture of acting like Shylock's as symbolized by the $ in the commonly seen shorthand. Yahoo, on the other hand, embodied the Internet culture of sharing from the start, which, while it has had its successes and is not dead yet (I hope), has proved a long, hard slog.