Microsoft Takes Over Yahoo

The incredible thing about the web is the increasing domination by the major players. Google and Microsoft, Microsoft and Google, is there really anyone else in control of the information highway? Truthfully while Yahoo was never a search engine superpower, it has been holding its own on the web, well that is at least until they struck a deal with Microsoft, that's right, now Microsoft will be taking over Yahoo search

Yahoo has been selling off assets left and right at least recently, since their new CEO Carol Bartz took over at the helm. But instead of making the big changes that this search engine needed in order to take back some of their power on the web she has gradually sold off pieces of this company reducing it to nothing more than a secondary presence on the web the equivalent of AOL.

Microsoft made it seem that this change would benefit both companies in essence they are just eliminating more of the competition which helps them drive their newest venture Bing into a second ranking position to Google, still clearly ranked well above any other competitor. In the long run though this lack of choice will cost consumers more money since the less competition there is the more companies can charge for their services leaving you no choice but to pay the over inflated charges that they serve up.

In the end, Microsoft acquiring Yahoo search will cut back this at one time competitor to nothing more than a inferior influence on the internet. This signifies that there will basically be merely two search engines on the internet and these participants are Google and Bing and that being said this will allow not only a gain in the price of things such as pay-per-click advertising but will as well limit the users to encountering only what these two search engines view as important. Since each search engine operates its personal algorithmic program this will greatly affect internet marketing across-the-board.

And although it could have been nice to see Yahoo try and acquire a little ground from these two internet heavyweights for now it's time to say adieu to Yahoo search. We may only hope that someone else produces a fresh search engine that could give these two companies a run for their money.