Comments on: MicroHoo: Yahoo and Google Play House

By: Yahoo-Microsoft Regulatory Filings Start This Week: Let the Legal Game-Playing Begin! | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 10:03:08 +0000

[...] more to the point, they want to avoid the debacle that took place when Yahoo and Google tried to get approval for its failed deal last [...]

By: WWGD: What Will Google Do, Now That There Is Finally a MicroHoo? [BoomTown] | UpOff.com

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:43:33 +0000

[...] is a cycle Google would like to keep intact, so much so that it made what turned out to be a very risky move to block Microsoft when it was trying to take over Yahoo last [...]

By: WWGD: What Will Google Do, Now That There Finally Might Be a MicroHoo? | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:54:29 +0000

[...] is a cycle Google would like to keep intact, so much so that it made what turned out to be a very risky move to block Microsoft when it was trying to take over Yahoo last [...]

By: MicroHoo, One Year Later: The More Things Change… | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD

Mon, 02 Feb 2009 16:26:35 +0000

[...] 3.) 4/17/08: MicroHoo: Yahoo and Google Play House [...]

By: Google Dumps Yahoo, Which Should Come as a Shock Only to Yahoo | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 19:15:28 +0000

[...] I also said then: “It is bad for advertisers, it is bad for consumers, it is bad for innovation, no matter how [...]

By: Yahoogle: One for the Bookmarks! (Also, BoomTown Was Fake-Blurbed!) | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 08:17:31 +0000

[...] here is what I wrote back in April: Still, you have to almost admire the chutzpah of the search giant in making this move, if the [...]

By: Too-Powerful Google Thumbs Its Nose at Everyone–Good Luck With That, Eric! | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 22:22:29 +0000

[...] competitors and anyone who fears a concentration of power in the hands of one player, I have been a critic of the deal since it was announced in the spring as a Hail Mary play to get Yahoo out of the clutches of [...]

By: tina silvee

tina silvee — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 08:41:37 +0000

Outsourcing has so many benefits:
1) Cost Savings
2) Time Zone Benefits
3) Quick Turn Around Time
4) Standardizing Business Processes
and many more….

http://www.outsourcewebsite.com

By: dave mcclure

dave mcclure — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 03:11:47 +0000

nice use of seuss!

swisher on the loose

By: Mac Beach

Mac Beach — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:17:28 +0000

I can’t make predictions regarding rational behavior from our government, but as a consumer I can hardly see any reason for concern about the actions of Yahoo or Google with regard to monopoly power.

We do not have a monopoly on computers, even though there are some big players like Dell and Apple. We do not have a monopoly on home electronics, even though Sony, Panasonic, Phillips and others sell a lot of TV sets.

There are more services and media outlets on the Internet than the average consumer can even keep up with and I’ve yet to meet anyone who thought they had been victimized by any of the thousands (at least) of free web services out there.

Changing from one search engine to another is only as hard as adding a bookmark to your web browser, or changing your “home” page or (in some browsers) another setting specifically for search.

Contrast that with a consumer switching from the operating system or word processor, which may well be the only OS or word processor they have ever used (given the youth of PC technology). The average consumer sees such a change as comparable not to getting a new car, but rather as learning to fly the space shuttle rather than driving.

Even once you make such a long-term Windows (or Apple for that matter) user realize that 90 percent or more of what they are doing these days is through their web browser I find that they still cling to the mostly invisible operating system that gets them there. In answer to the question “How do I get rid of all these pop-up ads that I get every time I open a web page?” almost any answer you give is more acceptable than the simplest “stop using Windows” even if the alternatives cost hundreds of dollars and involve many hours of lost productivity and multiple trips back to a retail store.

Even if in the process a few more monopolies are spun off (though I doubt that will be the case), ridding ourselves of the single monopoly that continues to plague our computer related activities (even if we are only innocent bystanders having to stop what we are doing to help friends and family) will be well worth it.

I can only hope the Justice Department sees it this way and doesn’t end up helping the harmful existing monopoly in a misguided effort to stop what may or may not turn out to be a future monopoly.