I've always used Yahoo, until the last update of IExplorer a couple months ago. My browser now has two Google search bars built into it lol, so it's kind of hard not to use it.

shares were going to fall. although yahoo should have sold out, i think the loser in that deal would have been ms. ms would not have been able to absorb yahoo well. it would have been a distraction and maybe even a huge loss.

How on earth does a massive multi-billion dollar company that appears to be heading towards a monopoly get so much love from people? People still treat Google as if it is the underdog despite the fact that its one of the largest companies around.

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It is far better for Yahoo not to be stuck to Microsoft. It would fail for a variety of reasons. Yahoo working a deal out with Google is the best case scenario.

I use yahoo email =/

Just for those who wonder who still does, I do generally use yahoo. I sometimes use google. Sometimes yahoo gets me better results. Sometimes google does, but yahoo is my default.

And Rath, I'm also sometimes amused by the love given to it when many people seem to hate other companies that seem to be in so much control, but oh well. I don't really have any direct investments in either.

A Google-Yahoo deal will never pass Anti-trust investigations. Not sure why people love Google so much, yeah they have a good outlook on life but I do not like the fact that they want every piece of data in the universe under their control. From medical records to business data, they want all of it. Not very smart in my opinion.

 A google-yahoo merger wouldn't pass anti-trust (probably, the fact that Google hasn't had antitrust litigation in its past may help it [but i doubt that]), but I fail to see how a deal wouldn't pass antitrust.

Even today, MS is perfectly free to make deals with competitors without worrying about antitrust scrutiny (and, in fact, deals were a part of the settlement between MS and Apple over certain antitrust matters)