No it's not the same thing, but it does speak to "highly principled". One thing that placed Google above other search engines was their refusal to sell search position, like all the other search engine whores were doing. Of course, once the battle was won, Google wound up out-whoring them all. As such, I believe Google deserves to fall, and fall hard.
No it's not the same thing, but it does speak to "highly principled". One thing that placed Google above other search engines was their refusal to sell search position, like all the other search engine whores were doing. Of course, once the battle was won, Google wound up out-whoring them all. As such, I believe Google deserves to fall, and fall hard.
Google will not "fall!" Both MS and Google will be strengthened by the compition that will come from a deal like this!! IMO
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No it's not the same thing, but it does speak to "highly principled". One thing that placed Google above other search engines was their refusal to sell search position, like all the other search engine whores were doing. Of course, once the battle was won, Google wound up out-whoring them all. As such, I believe Google deserves to fall, and fall hard.
I'm not sure what to make of Google...they made more money, more quietly, than anyone in history. I suppose to a certain extent they "sold out", but I'm not naive or sappy enough to believe that good technology should always be free from profitability.
I was referring more to the developers at Yahoo, which after all, if it's not for them, there is no Yahoo. They wouldn't be alone or wrong in deciding to jettison from the company if the alternative was to become Microsoft badge holders. Google - evil or not - is hiring.
^ Not sure if I agree with that. The only thing that would have prevented Google, was someone else implementing search using their approach before they did. Search was an absolute necessity though - it's development was an inevitability.
Yahoo was not a search engine at all when Google first popped up, it was a directory. There were several search engines around at the time (Excite, HotBot, Lycos, Northern Light, AltaVista), but Yahoo was not among them.
Ironfire will pressure Yahoo to accept the MS deal...
Ironfire Capital, an activist investment firm that last year helped organize shareholders to oust former Yahoo (YHOO) CEO Terry Semel, said Sunday that it would pressure Yahoo to accept the MS deal. And it has organized a group of 100 dissident shareholders who collectively own more than 2 million shares and have agreed to vote as a bloc to support the buyout offer.
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