Comments on: Google wins http://www.ducttapemarketing.com/blog/2008/02/02/google-wins/ Small business marketing blog Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:06:52 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Знаменка http://www.ducttapemarketing.com/blog/2008/02/02/google-wins/comment-page-1/#comment-314814 Знаменка Tue, 19 Feb 2008 18:37:06 +0000 http://www.ducttapemarketing.com/blog/2008/02/02/google-wins/#comment-314814 I don’t know if a stronger Google is really a good thing but I want to create my own SE I don’t know if a stronger Google is really a good thing but I want to create my own SE

]]> By: Bluebeetle(one) http://www.ducttapemarketing.com/blog/2008/02/02/google-wins/comment-page-1/#comment-291006 Bluebeetle(one) Thu, 07 Feb 2008 20:28:17 +0000 http://www.ducttapemarketing.com/blog/2008/02/02/google-wins/#comment-291006 You're right indeed only Google is reinforced in this attempt to acquire Yahoo! Indeed only shareholders have something to win from Micro$oft-Yahoo! merge. If M$ is victorious, it will be a bad news for the web & for Yahoo! employees (many of them will be “sacrified” in the name of “eliminating redundant infrastructure and duplicative operating costs”) ;o( You’re right indeed only Google is reinforced in this attempt to acquire Yahoo!

Indeed only shareholders have something to win from Micro$oft-Yahoo! merge.

If M$ is victorious, it will be a bad news for the web & for Yahoo! employees (many of them will be “sacrified” in the name of “eliminating redundant infrastructure and duplicative operating costs”)
;o(

]]> By: JD Savelli http://www.ducttapemarketing.com/blog/2008/02/02/google-wins/comment-page-1/#comment-287488 JD Savelli Wed, 06 Feb 2008 00:46:33 +0000 http://www.ducttapemarketing.com/blog/2008/02/02/google-wins/#comment-287488 John, I agree with you. There is not such a thing as a strategic merger. More often than not they result in mayhem, or arm-length management, and do not deliver the financials, the positioning, and the market share...(eBay/Skype, AOL/TW, etc.) Now, although it probably does not apply here, most CEOs have their compensation plans strongly biased towards favorably benefiting from such increase in revenue base... This explains that. I guess Google can celebrate, as lots of people are going to be losing focus on the business in the short to medium term! jd www.jdsavelli.com/blog John,

I agree with you. There is not such a thing as a strategic merger.

More often than not they result in mayhem, or arm-length management, and do not deliver the financials, the positioning, and the market share…(eBay/Skype, AOL/TW, etc.)

Now, although it probably does not apply here, most CEOs have their compensation plans strongly biased towards favorably benefiting from such increase in revenue base… This explains that.

I guess Google can celebrate, as lots of people are going to be losing focus on the business in the short to medium term!

jd
http://www.jdsavelli.com/blog

]]> By: Bob Warfield http://www.ducttapemarketing.com/blog/2008/02/02/google-wins/comment-page-1/#comment-285137 Bob Warfield Mon, 04 Feb 2008 21:49:18 +0000 http://www.ducttapemarketing.com/blog/2008/02/02/google-wins/#comment-285137 Microsoft missed a far superior acquisition target: Amazon. Yahoo is just traffic, Amazon is strategic. Moreover, if the transaction triggers further consolidation, and Google buys Amazon, that spells really bad news for Microsoft. More on my blog: http://smoothspan.wordpress.com/2008/02/04/microsoft-yahoo-the-only-counter-google-combination-that-makes-sense-the-force-is-strong-in-another-one/ Best, BW Microsoft missed a far superior acquisition target: Amazon. Yahoo is just traffic, Amazon is strategic. Moreover, if the transaction triggers further consolidation, and Google buys Amazon, that spells really bad news for Microsoft.

More on my blog:

http://smoothspan.wordpress.com/2008/02/04/microsoft-yahoo-the-only-counter-google-combination-that-makes-sense-the-force-is-strong-in-another-one/

Best,

BW

]]> By: Google FTW? : Man Bytes Blog http://www.ducttapemarketing.com/blog/2008/02/02/google-wins/comment-page-1/#comment-284201 Google FTW? : Man Bytes Blog Mon, 04 Feb 2008 12:02:58 +0000 http://www.ducttapemarketing.com/blog/2008/02/02/google-wins/#comment-284201 [...] Duct Tape Marketing has a post about the proposed Microsoft buyout of Yahoo and how much of a threat that would really be to Google. Even if you don’t go read it, the post title is telling–Google Wins. [...] [...] Duct Tape Marketing has a post about the proposed Microsoft buyout of Yahoo and how much of a threat that would really be to Google. Even if you don’t go read it, the post title is telling–Google Wins. [...]

]]> By: Tom Schmidt http://www.ducttapemarketing.com/blog/2008/02/02/google-wins/comment-page-1/#comment-282979 Tom Schmidt Sun, 03 Feb 2008 19:53:15 +0000 http://www.ducttapemarketing.com/blog/2008/02/02/google-wins/#comment-282979 "..and couldn't not have achieved by conventional methods" That sounds like admitting defeat to me! I guess it depends on what you think of as the contest. I think the contest is to be the dominant, most useful platform. Google is taking Desktop Applications, including MS Office functions, and bringing them to the web. Microsoft is following them. “..and couldn’t not have achieved by conventional methods”

That sounds like admitting defeat to me! I guess it depends on what you think of as the contest.

I think the contest is to be the dominant, most useful platform. Google is taking Desktop Applications, including MS Office functions, and bringing them to the web.

Microsoft is following them.

]]> By: agentgenius.com- national real estate opinion column » Blog Archive » Microsoft’s Bid For Yahoo [Counterpoint] http://www.ducttapemarketing.com/blog/2008/02/02/google-wins/comment-page-1/#comment-282162 agentgenius.com- national real estate opinion column » Blog Archive » Microsoft’s Bid For Yahoo [Counterpoint] Sun, 03 Feb 2008 04:51:32 +0000 http://www.ducttapemarketing.com/blog/2008/02/02/google-wins/#comment-282162 [...] read a position today that made me think the merger might not actually be a great idea. John Jantsch of Duct Tape Marketing noted: My take is that Microsoft is admitting defeat by trying to buy their way out of it. Yahoo! has [...] [...] read a position today that made me think the merger might not actually be a great idea. John Jantsch of Duct Tape Marketing noted: My take is that Microsoft is admitting defeat by trying to buy their way out of it. Yahoo! has [...]

]]> By: mike ashworth http://www.ducttapemarketing.com/blog/2008/02/02/google-wins/comment-page-1/#comment-281618 mike ashworth Sat, 02 Feb 2008 21:38:03 +0000 http://www.ducttapemarketing.com/blog/2008/02/02/google-wins/#comment-281618 I'm not certain I agree with your view that Microsoft has admitted defeat by this proposal. Often a Company, even a large one such as Microsoft, will consider a strategic purchase, which will give it a position they did not have before, and couldn't not have achieved by conventional methods. The good thing about this is that people are aware of Google's dominance and that a new Microsoft (as people are sometimes calling Google) needs to be competed against. I feel that the Companies wont drift, as they have experienced Management Teams who would not dare risk the shareholder value on something reckless. What I like most about this announcement is that it's got people talking about all three companies, their market positions, their place now, their place in the future. Change is constant so I'm looking forward to seeing how this will pan out Mike Ashworth Business Coach Brighton and Hove, UK I’m not certain I agree with your view that Microsoft has admitted defeat by this proposal. Often a Company, even a large one such as Microsoft, will consider a strategic purchase, which will give it a position they did not have before, and couldn’t not have achieved by conventional methods.

The good thing about this is that people are aware of Google’s dominance and that a new Microsoft (as people are sometimes calling Google) needs to be competed against.

I feel that the Companies wont drift, as they have experienced Management Teams who would not dare risk the shareholder value on something reckless.

What I like most about this announcement is that it’s got people talking about all three companies, their market positions, their place now, their place in the future. Change is constant so I’m looking forward to seeing how this will pan out

Mike Ashworth
Business Coach
Brighton and Hove, UK

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