So according to several news Steve Ballmer has withdrawn the Microsoft offer to acquire Yahoo. Still not sure if this is really true or just some old school game.
Well … not a bad decision. Yahoo is in my eyes nothing more than a massive amount of Yahoo Mail accounts and some decent traffic portals, which are built to recycle traffic throughout their network.
Maybe a little too harsh, (Yahoo has some great products) but I am still astonished that I used to spend over $100k/year with Yahoo and after canceling the account not a single person called me up and asked why I stopped advertising on their portal.
Anyways: Google is so far the winner and Steve Ballmer’s words “We will contintue to improve search results…” sound like a big joke to me. Just one example:
Results for “apartments” on Live.com
1. www.apartments.com
2. www.apartments.com/wgntv
3. living.apartments.com
4. forrent.com
5. atlanta.apartments.com
6. huntsville.apartments.com
7. milwaukee.apartments.com
8. www.rent.com
9.www.press-citizen.apartments.com
10. akron.apartments.com
No. 11-xxx40+ all apartments.com domains in SERPs.
