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My Opinion: Google wants Microsoft to buy Yahoo

4 points by gregp ↗ HN
I mean when you think about it in terms of the mythical man month and the amount of entropy introduced with a merger its kind of interesting. Plus you have a bunch of processes going on here - consolidation, shift of resource etc. which generally dont win tech wars.

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dkokelley
Google has already publicly stated that they do not want the acquisition to take place. Maybe they wouldn't wish a "fate worse than death" on even their competitors. Maybe Google is waiting for Yahoo to sink to the point where Google could afford it.

Brings a whole new perspective on the phrase "Do no evil," doesn't it?

flashgordon
I am not sure google would be interested in buying Yahoo the same way intel wouldnt be interested in AMD. Always good to have an underperforming competitor to avoid being labelled as a bully or a monopoly!
pg
I don't think it makes much difference, honestly. MSFT and Yahoo individually were a negligible threat. Combined they'd still be a negligible threat.