gwydion56: I prefer "Goohoo", personally.

Not much to see here. Google want to keep regulators off its back by having a viable (okay, "on life support") competitor. It doesn't want to buy Yahoo, it just wants to help someone else buy Yahoo.

I will be glad to make the purchase, in exchange for 1% of the purchase price.

Nah.

GooGhoo

So Google doesn't want to "join" the Apple family?

I like Flickr better than Google's photo service. At least Yahoo hasn't farked up Flickr.

[Google] is considering providing financing for an acquisition of Yahoo! Inc. by another company or a group of bidders, according to a person who has been briefed on the matter.

...Why?

Honest Bender: ..Why?

Read a little more of the article. They need competition to keep regulators off their back

gwydion56: I prefer "Goohoo", personally.

Not much to see here. Google want to keep regulators off its back by having a viable (okay, "on life support") competitor. It doesn't want to buy Yahoo, it just wants to help someone else buy Yahoo.

I will be glad to make the purchase, in exchange for 1% of the purchase price.



Approves

I love it. Let's spend a few billion propping up a company that we are crushing so it won''t look like we have an unfair, illegal monopoly. Really jibes with the "Don't be evil:" philosophy. This is definitely Dr Evil, mustache twirling, shifty eye mother farkery.

I'm also amused that their product is so superior to all the competition that they have to set them up as zombie puppets to create the illusion of fairness. It's like the laws force true innovation to handicap itself when met with unbridled success. No corporation left behind, I suppose.

"We are so awesome, and the laws so primitive relative to what we are doing, we have to game the system to be allowed to continue to be awesome."

dalovindj: I love it. Let's spend a few billion propping up a company that we are crushing so it won't look like we have an unfair, illegal monopoly. Really jibes with the "Don't be evil:" philosophy. This is definitely Dr Evil, mustache twirling, shifty eye mother farkery.

I'm also amused that their product is so superior to all the competition that they have to set them up as zombie puppets to create the illusion of fairness. It's like the laws force true innovation to handicap itself when met with unbridled success. No corporation left behind, I suppose.

"We are so awesome, and the laws so primitive relative to what we are doing, we have to game the system to be allowed to continue to be awesome."

The second half of your post sort of contradicts the first half. How is it evil to do this when they're forced into this position by the FTC simply for being good at what they do?

Schlock: The second half of your post sort of contradicts the first half. How is it evil to do this when they're forced into this position by the FTC simply for being good at what they do?

It is arguable that circumventing the laws is immoral, even if the laws are not perfect. It's like I'm never really justified in beating my wife, even though she forces me to do so for her own good, the filthy whore.

I prefer Goooo, or Yaaaaah, or Yahoogoohoo. Would be much more fun hearing hipsters saying "I'm not sure about that, I'll just do a quick YahoogoohooGoooooYaaaahgogglegooyaaaaah and check".

/LMFAO

Not gonna happen.

I would be surprised to see Yapple or Appoo instead of Goohoo....