Feb 1, 2008 at 3:48pm ET by Danny Sullivan
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on
Search Engine Land and from other
places across the web.
From Search Engine Land:
- Microsoft Makes
$45 Billion Bid To Buy Yahoo
Microsoft is to bid $31 per share to Yahoo’s board of directors to purchase
the company, a deal potentially worth $45 billion. Below, more details, some
history and analysis. We’ll also keep updating this story, and we’ll have a
separate post linked from this when the conference call starts….
- Q&A With
Microsoft On Proposed Yahoo Purchase: 2+2 = #1
Greg Sterling and I have just finished a short Q&A with Microsoft’s Yusuf
Mehdi, senior vice president of strategic partnerships, about his company’s
bid to acquire Yahoo. How does Microsoft plan to integrate Yahoo, if its
proposal wins? The plan right now is one more about how the two…
- MSFT + YHOO:
What Would Microsoft Yahoo Look Like?
So the conference call has happened, and despite saying it has a plan to
digest Yahoo, Microsoft didn’t share that with the world. Indeed, at one point
it was said any plan depended on what Yahoo’s leadership would suggest. That
means it’s time for What If. Some thoughts below…
- Live Blogging
Microsoft’s Bid For Yahoo Call
Microsoft conference call on the Yahoo bid is happening now. I’ll live blog
rough notes. Greg Sterling will do a formal write-up later….
- Microsoft Call:
"We Love The Yahoo Brand" [But Can The Deal Happen?]
Danny and I just got off the Microsoft conference call. He’s already posted
live notes from the call. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said at the outset,
"This is a decision I’ve thought long and hard about. This is the right path
for Microsoft and it’s the right path for…
- Microsoft +
Yahoo: Recapping Reactions
Now that we’ve posted our own five different stories on the Microsoft bid for
Yahoo, I wanted to take a spin across what others are writing up. Below, a
recap of things I found interesting below. In particular, I’ve tried to focus
on stuff that’s got original observations or…
- Two Approaches
to Determining Intent: The Wisdom of Crowds and Personal Values
I’ve said a number of times that the holy grail of search is to disambiguate
intent. A two or three word query, given the complexity of the English
language, is just not enough to confidently provide results that will always
be relevant and useful. But up to now, it’s…
- "Open Network"
A Reality, C Block Of 700MHz Spectrum Hits $4.6 Billion "Reserve Price"
Yesterday the coveted "C Block" of the 700MHz spectrum, which will serve the
entire US market, hit the FCC required minimum "reserve bid" of $4.6 billion.
Google had promised to bid this amount to trigger the "openness provisions"
imposed by the FCC. Effectively the rules now require that "any legal…
- Google Revenues
Up 51 Percent, Social Networking Monetization "Disappointing"
Google posted Q4, 2007 revenues that represented 51 percent growth vs. 2006.
Quarterly revenues were $4.83 billion, compared with $3.21 billion a year ago.
However, earnings and revenue per share fell short of analyst consensus
estimates. The headline that everyone is repeating is that social network
monetization is not performing…
- Mine The Web’s
Socially-Tagged Links: Google Social Graph API Launched
Did you know there’s a way to tag links on pages to indicate social
connections? I’d heard about this vaguely, but you can bet there’s going to be
much more public awareness and potential use, thanks to Google launching its
new Google Social Graph API. Now available, the API…
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