Microsoft/Yahoo! Merger a Good Idea?

NorbMan writes "Last month there was speculation about Microsoft's interest in joining forces with Yahoo! to battle Google. Today, a Merrill Lynch analyst recommended a Yahoo! takeover by Microsoft. From the article: "A Yahoo/MSN-Microsoft combination would have garnered approximately 41% share in the US of search queries [in April] versus Google with 44%.""

Very bad idea

[MarkByers]

Very bad idea. No one will trust their business to a company called 'Microhoo!'.

Merger would be (doubleplus)Good for America (TM)

[Anonymous Coward]

After all, Google is the America-hating empire [shelleytherepublican.com]!

This would also counter the European threat to our computers [shelleytherepublican.com], with its shameful and sordid history [shelleytherepublican.com].

Re:Very bad idea

[jkrise]

Microsoft merging with Yahoo! is like me merging with pizza. It ends up with a slightly larger me.

While you may feel larger and bigger temporarily, after merging with pizza... after a few hours, the pizza exits with a foul smell, and you're left longing for another merger. True growth can NEVER be achieved by mergers. You need to Grow Up to understand that.

Genius!

[Anonymous Coward]

What's better than having the trust and reliability of Microsoft paired with the strategy and insight of Yahoo!

Oh...

Yes it's a great idea.

[El_Muerte_TDS]

Instead of two large companies to worry about we only have to fear one even larger company.

Re:As bad as the HP - Compaq merger...

[wonkobeeblebrox]

A Yahoo/MSN-Microsoft combination would have garnered approximately 41% share in the US of search queries [in April] versus Google with 44%

I don't know if that statistic is accurate. Let's all google it and check...

Re:Creepy.

[pedantic bore]

Yeah, Google creeps me out, too.

MSN and Yahoo search engines?

[__declspec]

Is there a search engine available at MSN or Yahoo?!?!

Re:Very bad idea

[Dannon]

"Where do <yodel>yoooooooooooooooooooooou</yodel> want to go today?"

I dunno about this...

[capilot]

I dunno, that's a lot of evil to concentrate into one place.

Re. the naming: Back when IBM-acquiring-Apple rumors used to circulate back in the 80's, the joke was this: What do you call the merger between IBM and Apple? IBM.

Re:Very bad idea

[Zemran]

or Ya Soft :p

yahoo-msn-live-plus

[Kuku_monroe]

Now i just can't imagine how bloated will the new yahoo-msn-live-plus messenger be! Maybe AOL can join the merge too (oh god)

I shall answer this question with another question

[mattpointblank]

Would Dracula merging with Frankenstein's Monster to take out, uh, Buffy, be a good idea? No, you'd just get an even uglier monster (especially compared to the sexy Goog- uh, Buffy) with a combination of skills that would seem to plug the others' holes (eg, Dracula's shapeshifting plus FM's zombieness) but really just leave it trying to focus on too many things at once (Blood? Electricity? Love?!). Plus as any geek knows, Buffy always wins.