Why does Microsoft want to buy out YAHOO! so badly??

Question

What will change to YAHOO! as we know it?

Answer 1

$,,$$ and more $$

i think microsoft will ruin yahoo community,,just look at thier last two operating systems,,sucks,,expensive,always in need of updates,,

Answer 2

it need yahoo's search engine and income from search. google 1  yahoo 2 msn a distant 3  if you take Microsoft and yahoo and put them together it could compete with google.Not just search but desktop applications.

Answer 3

I have been using Yahoo since I was in college, which was back in 1993. Yahoo is great but it has fallen behind so badly against the likes of Google. Even MSN cannot compete with the almighty Google when it comes to revenues.

So what MSN is trying to do is not loose too much ground against Google by buying Yahoo. Eventually, I see the demise of Yahoo, it just cannot keep up anymore and even MSN might falter unless it grabs market share thru acquisition.