For my American friends Newcastle United is a football club in the English Premier League. The similarities to Yahoo are astounding. Both are highly ambitious entities drowning in huge expectations and the spit of what could have been.
Newcastle United have a huge fan base in England, have the third highest home attendance, have splashed big money to acquire big name players and managers and yet face relegation this season. The internet darling of yesteryear Yahoo, have spent huge on acquisitions, big name managers have come and gone, have even went Hollywood all to no avail and are themselves facing their own relegation battle.
I understand their trying to grab on straws, being acquired by Microsoft is like me working as a butler for that kid Michael I went to high school with, would have to be the last resort.
Back to my main point, amongst others Newcastle bought Michael Owen, what a worst of space on the pitch and a huge dent on the player's salary budget that he lives. Yahoo well I was a Yahoo fan, still use the e-mail but that is just about it, and I remember the days I was excited about Yahoo Briefcases and even Geocities, and unconsciously from just using Google search, I now use Adsense, Webmaster Tools, Blogger and even Gmail, and once I know what iGoogle is who knows I will be on that too. I am doing with Google tools exactly what I used to do with Yahoo. As for their acquisitions Flickr that is Michael Owen, I don't find still pictures interesting I would rather see them move on Youtube, oh that is also Google innit.
Steve Ballmer if was you I wouldn't get my hands dirty acquiring Yahoo, Dude it is not worth it trust me, just ask Mike Ashely.
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