For reasons unknown Google is trying to keep Yahoo out of Microsoft’s hands, thus rescuing their great rival from making a huge mistake and inviting a barrage of antitrust attention on themselves.
Schonfeld reports in TechCrunch that to avoid this “the deal is necessarily structured in a creative way” which sounds like the Google legal department has been working long hours. I always think in business you should try and avoid anything which means spending a lot of time with lawyers and government officials. And I say that as a former lawyer.
Yahoo is going down and if MS are unlucky enough to land the deal they will go down with them. Why on earth Google is stepping in to prevent this catastrophe is anyone’s guess. Yahoo search will never threaten them unless they put Schachter in charge of it which nobody at Yahoo has the imagination for.
What Google should actually do is concentrate on building out their enterprise apps. They already have a fantastic start in Gmail. All they need is a couple of innovative enterprise networks start-ups and they would be well on their way to an attractive 21st century alternative to Office while MS was choking on Yahoo.
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