Did Microsoft dodge a bullet?

[The Fury]

pbroy said:
Yahoo is crap and Bing is crap. Putting those two together wouldn't make them any less crap. If anything, they would be more crappier. 🤔

they weren't buying Yahoo for it's search engine, they were buying it for this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Yahoo!

And they probably did dodge a bullet. Yahoo has been going down since they removed their auctions section.