I never understood the rational for Microsoft to buy Yahoo, and neither do Microsoft's shareholders or even the occasionally enlightened International Herald Tribune.
My own doubts come from the fact that I think Yahoo is rubbish. Not only that, but they fail to adapt.
Google builds its fortune around its search engine. It has some other good products, but without the search engine, they would hardly have got the momentum to build any other applications at all.
Google search is slick and to the point. It has been so for years. Why has Yahoo not been able to learn from it? Is "slick and to the point" a patented concept? Does Yahoo have to design an ugly confusing interface due to intellectual property laws?
And why would Microsoft want to learn anything from Yahoo? To be certain that they never get better than number two on the internet?
Yahoo's Ajax based mail is useless. It crashes, it blocks one's browser and it keeps excusing itself for not being able to log in to some chat that one does not want to log in to.
Luckily for everyone, the deal does not seem to take place.
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