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Azuren on 23 September 2016
KLAMarine said:
Azuren said:

Aside from not being Google? 

I've had instances where it yielded better results than Google.

Don't really see how it could. 



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LivingMetal on 23 September 2016
Kerotan said:

I see they offered close to $50 BILLION a few years ago to buy yahoo.  But their offer was turned down. Yahoo was recently sold for almost $5 BILLION.  

 

So I ask,  if Microsoft bought them for $50BN would yahoo's value have dramatically dropped and it would have been a terrible deal,  or would Microsoft have kept yahoo as a top player in the game?

 

Did Microsoft unintentionally dodge a bullet? 

It's not so much Microsoft dodged a bullet, the tech world and its users dodged a bullet.  Let's put it like this: Hotmail was up and coming.  Microsoft bought out Hotmail.  Where's Hotmail now?  See my point, and I think Yahoo saw that as well.



KLAMarine on 23 September 2016
Azuren said:
KLAMarine said:

I've had instances where it yielded better results than Google.

Don't really see how it could. 

Try searching up my avatar on both engines:

 

Bing provided among other things a link to ign detailing the existence of the cd-i games. Google just gave me cartoons.



Azuren on 23 September 2016
KLAMarine said:
Azuren said:

Don't really see how it could. 

Try searching up my avatar on both engines:

 

Bing provided among other things a link to ign detailing the existence of the cd-i games. Google just gave me cartoons.

Okay? So sending you to IGN is considered good why?... 



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V-r0cK on 23 September 2016

MS definite dodged a bullet.

But Google dodged it the biggest when Yahoo turned down and refused to buy them for $1 Million back in 1998 and again back in 2002 for $5 Billion.

Yahoo is now a joke.



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KLAMarine on 23 September 2016
Azuren said:
KLAMarine said:

Try searching up my avatar on both engines:

 

Bing provided among other things a link to ign detailing the existence of the cd-i games. Google just gave me cartoons.

Okay? So sending you to IGN is considered good why?... 

Imagine if I wanted to know the source of the image. I had no clue what it was or where it was from... Google wouldn't help me in my quest to find a source, Bing would link to ign which would be perfectly capable of explaining what the image was or where it was from.



AsGryffynn on 23 September 2016
Kerotan said:

I see they offered close to $50 BILLION a few years ago to buy yahoo.  But their offer was turned down. Yahoo was recently sold for almost $5 BILLION.  

 

So I ask,  if Microsoft bought them for $50BN would yahoo's value have dramatically dropped and it would have been a terrible deal,  or would Microsoft have kept yahoo as a top player in the game?

 

Did Microsoft unintentionally dodge a bullet? 

Both. MS might have saved them, but no one knows. Yahoo is shit though, hence their rejection actually spared MS the hassle of having to bail them out... 



AsGryffynn on 23 September 2016
Azuren said:
KLAMarine said:

I've had instances where it yielded better results than Google.

Don't really see how it could. 

Yandex can yield better results than Google (mostly for images though)... 



Stefan.De.Machtige on 23 September 2016

When a female CEO comes to power, you know the company is very likely going down. It's nice to see she was able to sell it too a big stong man, eh, company.



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LudicrousSpeed on 23 September 2016
The Fury said:
pbroy said:

That's a nice list of crap. 😛

Yeah, I never said it was good stuff (flickr might be the biggest one). But then remember, MS bought Mojang for $2.5billion... which at the time was a company that was making about $90mil a year profit. It will take them over 20 years to get that back from the company if they stay around that sum. So not really sure how MS value things.

Think about it like this. You just said Minecraft makes about $90,000,000 a year in profit. Microsoft has, literally, billions of dollars just sitting in a bank. You take that 2.5 billion dollars they spent buying Mojang. If they left that money just sitting in a bank, it would have generated about $25,000,000 for them in interest. So when you say Minecraft makes around $90,000,000 in profit per year, well just do the math.

$90,000,000 from Minecraft, versus $25,000,000 from interest. It seems like an instant win for ANY company to make that deal.

This is what companies mean when they are talking about making money right away or breaking even on these huge deals. No, they aren't close to making back that 2.5 billion yet, but they are generating more profit because of the deal.