Should Google's Competitors Merge?
Economist.com has written a pretty interesting article comparing Google to Napoleon. Microsoft, Yahoo!, and eBay, are a lot like Russia, Prussia, and Austria. Some say a merger between two of the smaller powers would help prevent Google from gaining more search market share. Others say it would simply expedite the smaller companies' decline.
I don't think a merger between Yahoo! and Microsoft would be too helpful. Yahoo! is an Internet portal; Microsoft has an Internet portal. Thus, Microsoft offers a much broader scope of products and services, and the two companies overlap on every service common to Internet portals: email, chat, news, music, search, etc. It seems that the best strategy between Yahoo! and Microsoft is to partner together. They've already announced plans to integrate their chat clients. Deals like these are in both companies' best interest. The problem is, these small partnerships have minimal impact on Google.
Although I don't think a merger between Yahoo! and Microsoft would help either company very much, I do think either company would benefit from a merger with eBay. There would be no overlapping of services. A merger of that size would be so huge though, it seems that nothing like that will happen until drastic measures essentially require it to happen. Maybe these drastic measures will be realized when Google hits 90% market share for search. Only time will tell.
I don't think a merger between Yahoo! and Microsoft would be too helpful. Yahoo! is an Internet portal; Microsoft has an Internet portal. Thus, Microsoft offers a much broader scope of products and services, and the two companies overlap on every service common to Internet portals: email, chat, news, music, search, etc. It seems that the best strategy between Yahoo! and Microsoft is to partner together. They've already announced plans to integrate their chat clients. Deals like these are in both companies' best interest. The problem is, these small partnerships have minimal impact on Google.
Although I don't think a merger between Yahoo! and Microsoft would help either company very much, I do think either company would benefit from a merger with eBay. There would be no overlapping of services. A merger of that size would be so huge though, it seems that nothing like that will happen until drastic measures essentially require it to happen. Maybe these drastic measures will be realized when Google hits 90% market share for search. Only time will tell.
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posted by CJ at 8/13/2006 08:21:00 AM
4 Comments:
hi cj.I do like your ajax searchbar and these days I'm trying to make one on my site,but I'm so confused about the positioning. the bar still stays at the bottom of the page, for whatever I do.
this is my testing site(http://heaoxiang.blogspot.com/ ).would you give me some more advice.many thanks!
thanks cj！i do appreciate your advice! now the search bar works on http://heaoxiang.blogspot.com/...but there is still one tiny bug that the search results align in the middle. how can make it to the left?
my main blog is http://bokeman.blogspot.com
welcome to my site, cool man!
BTW: i viewed your source file and noticed that you add some more codes to the search script.i am surely curious about that,but don't quite understand it
the align code works in body{}!the search bar now looks so cool on my site. :-) thanku,cj. u do make the green hands' blogging an enjoyable experience. i've adapted the search-bar-on template on http://bokeman.blogspot.com
i wonder if it's okay that i translate your post of getting a ajax search bar into chinese. i didn't find a chinese how-to post. since the chinese ISPs have opened up blogspot.com access again,many bloggers are planning to move and decorate their blogs, your post will surely be more useful for them if there is no language barrier。
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