The deal is the result of a long mating dance which started in earnest early in 2008. In February last year Microsoft made a $44.6 billion takeover bid for Yahoo!, later raising its offer to $47.5 billion. But Yahoo!’s management then rebuffed(粗暴拒绝) Microsoft, regarding the offer as undervaluing the company. Instead Yahoo! entered into an advertising dalliance with Google, but this fell apart after antitrust (反垄断)authorities signalled that they would not approve such an agreement. Talks between Microsoft and Yahoo! were rekindled (使再燃)after Ms Bartz took the helm(舵) at Yahoo! in January. She is less emotionally attached to maintaining its independence than her predecessor(前辈), Jerry Yang, one of the company’s founders.
Yet even for Ms Bartz the results of the negotiations must be somewhat disappointing. Yahoo! is said to have pushed for a whopping(巨大的) upfront payment of billions of dollars for agreeing to a deal with Microsoft—but it has not succeeded. What is more, the deal apparently only covers the text ads displayed alongside search results and not other forms of online ads. And although Yahoo! will use Microsoft’s advertising platform, the firm will continue to sell the ads itself. This will allow it to maintain relationships with advertisers, making it easier to sell them other kinds of ads.
The big question is whether this combination will be able to threaten Google’s dominance in web search. The deal will mean that Microsoft handles nearly 30% of searches in America—compared with Google’s 65% of the market. Microsoft’s share may well rise. It will be able to offer better search results because it will have more search data to improve its technology. Bing, which the firm launched in June, has already got off to a good start, gaining a couple of percentage points of the search market since then.
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