Yahoo vs MSN vs Google
Much webspace has been used on the recent acquisition bid by Microsoft to buy Yahoo. The New York Times Technology Section has basically been taken over by stories discussing the merger. Alexa Page View Graph Notice the trend. Microsoft has it's MSN page set as the default of virtually every Windows machine in the free world. Google is the Default home page in the #2 browser spot. Leaving Yahoo to hope that users will set their page to default. Yahoo is facing a pretty steep decline, Microsoft is falling off the chart, meanwhile Google is steadily climbing year after year. So if you are Microsoft, losing a three way race, what do you do. Emulate your competition doesn't seem to be working. Buy out the #2 and take second place by default. For years that is exactly what the have been trying to do. yahoo microsoft google Google Trends Graph Yahoo is faced with re-rejecting the most generous offer from Microsoft or disappointing it's investors with Dollar Signs...