<![CDATA[Yahoo prepares to give Google 80 percent of the search ad market - Valleywag Comments]]> <![CDATA[Yahoo prepares to give Google 80 percent of the search ad market - Valleywag Comments]]> <![CDATA[Yahoo prepares to give Google 80 percent of the search ad market]]> 80% - 90% of the IM market?!? Isn't Google the company that invested in AOL which (at least the last time I checked) owns AIM and ICQ. If you add Gtalk and Skype (owned by eBay) to those two, I think you'll get more than 10% - 20% of the IM market.

As for e-mail, I'm sure that ISPs and corporate accounts are less than 20%. Who pulls these numbers out of their...

sanfernandovalleywagger

]]> <![CDATA[Yahoo prepares to give Google 80 percent of the search ad market]]> I agree krln99. Just get it done already.

soulpilgrim

]]> <![CDATA[Yahoo prepares to give Google 80 percent of the search ad market]]> Yang is a moron for dealing with google. Google will fucking bury Yahoo. Their only hope is MS, and I say this who only has one legitimately purchased MS product, the OS that came preloaded with my laptop. Yang and the board need to quit fucking around and deal.

krln99

]]> <![CDATA[Yahoo prepares to give Google 80 percent of the search ad market]]> Dont forget the 1000 odd editors who would go as well

SeanPara

]]> <![CDATA[Yahoo prepares to give Google 80 percent of the search ad market]]> "We're not anti-competitive - we're open." We'll take any ads that monetize higher than google.

Hmm. Seems like there might be a few obvious challenges here:

1. Jerry and Sue kinda have to come up with a new strategy. Good news -- if you work for Stone-Yamashita.

2. How does Hillary Schneider justify having a sales organization? Seems like Yahoo can fire at least a 1000 or more direct sales folks. At a minimum, it raises the bar for them.

3. Why would anyone ever buy another search ad from Yahoo? Is Yahoo throwing in the towel on half of its ad revenue?

4. What value add would yahoo now bring to an ebay or comcast or att? Is Yahoo ceding those too?

5. What does this mean for Y's valuation? If Yahoo becomes a destination site coupled with the right media exchange. As purely a destination, it's probably worth a few billion. Right media **might** be worth another billion. $36 billion seems like a lot.

6. oh, and is it just me, or does it sound like a nose thumbing to the DOJ?

xhooter

]]> <![CDATA[Yahoo prepares to give Google 80 percent of the search ad market]]> I don't get it. Is that a picture from the Special Olympics?

Vulture

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