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Of course, there is whole discussion to be had about how greedy bankers, and insiders were enriched greatly for creating a lot of hype around Google prior to the IPO.
As a battle hardened veteran of this thing we call the Internet...Google has hit the apex. The search has been less than brilliant for some time, and the "me too" attitude for acquiring and copying other business ideas will not sustain them.
On the OS side: Microsoft.
Office productivity software: Microsoft.
Web portal, homepage: Yahoo, MSN.
Encyclopedia, streets and maps, programming software: Microsoft.
Internet Browser: Microsoft.
Email: Yahoo, Microsoft.
Instant Messenging: Microsoft, Yahoo, AIM.
Photo editing / Video editing: Adobe
Yahoo has a lot of successful products, and their advantage is their homepage (web portal). It is a gateway to unlimited opportunities to cash in via advertising, subscriptions, internet users, mass media, etc.
Google has search, but that's it. People use it for searching the web. They don't use it for anything else. We have the possibility to use Yahoo for anything.
As for Yahoo being better of broken up, I don't trust "analysts" to do anything more than blow whatever smoke will make share prices go whichever way they want to go.
I simply don't trust them.
Charles R. Whealton
Charles Whealton @ pleasedontspam.com
The sum of the old parts are worth more than the orginal parent would have been. That's even when you factor in that not all the pieces survived as companies.
Unless the Synergy is real (and Synergy is the elusive holy grail of all mergers...that few ever realize and why most mergers fail) all companies with divisions that can be spun out and stand alone, are better off doing so for their investors.
There are a lot of reasons why companies should not spin things off, and a lot of reasons they should when they can. Most of them don't involve $.
MicroSoft, GM, Bernstein's Parent company...
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How would I restructure Yahoo? Fire the entire email staff and outsource it to Google.