Yahoo Buyout - The Coalmarch Opinion

By now we’ve all heard the recent news about Microsoft’s 62% premium offer to purchase flagging portal company, Yahoo. There has been much speculation about whether or not this move will negatively impact Google.

It is interesting to note that as a general rule, society at large doesn’t really care for fascism. This is not to say that the move by Microsoft is indeed of the totalitarian type, but it’s definitely not consumer-friendly.

This sort of action in my mind, has more of a potential to galvanize users of Google services against the Yahoo/MS alliance. The culture that Google struggles so hard to create is one of benefit; benefit to open source, benefit to the community, benefit to humanity, and it seems extremely likely that those people who are most loyal to the Google mentality will only be more so if this deal goes through.

Time will tell what the real impact is; it could be that Microsoft just uses the merge to push its MSN-Live-Search-of-Many-Names’ services out to the public at large. In that circumstance, the situation doesn’t really change much.