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Google mulling role in possible Yahoo bid

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How is that even a possibility while Google is currently under anti-trust investigation on the premise of being a virtual monopoly?

A cynical person may think this is ploy to raise stock interest so you could ditch any stock you are stuck with...

It's not - FTC won't allow it. Maybe they're saying this to drive up the bidding price?

There's no chance the Gov would allow them to merge. They're just doing it to drive up the price for Microsoft.

Steve Ballmer said he thought MS were "lucky" that they hadn't bought Yahoo. I don't think he will think of going near it. Unless there is real chance of Google buying them, but I don't see that happening even if Google wants Yahoo, as the regulators will go berserk at that.

I must have missed this. When did Google get slapped with an anti-trust investigation?

The current one is over favoring there own products in search results over third parties. Some of the evidence is pretty damning, I was quite surprised at the what they had put together.

In general its over enhancements such as searching for a company and the first result is a Google map location with a nice thumb nail and a link through to the google review site as opposed to the actual business.

Will. Not. Happen.

Yahoo is in the content business, Google is not. A more likely merger is with AOL or someone else that has more synergy, beyond search.

Of course, there's also the antitrust issue.

sounds to me like yahoo is spreading rumours to drive up their stock a bit. there's no way that google actually wants yahoo.

Seems to me that Google would of course want to buy Yahoo, they would be most able to monetize the search.

The question is whether the government would allow it, due to antitrust.

Uh, Yahoo search is run by Bing now... that wouldn't make any sense. Yahoo has no search to monetize.

http://mashable.com/2010/08/24/bing-powers-yahoo-search/

They didn't actually want to buy Motorola Mobility either. But they did.

Even if it is true, no way will this go through the regulators. Even MS had a hard time convincing when trying to buy Yahoo and later the Bing deal.

After all that cleaning up that Larry Page has been up to lately? I hope not.

But Google has been acquiring a lot lately ( of course, that includes Motorola ), so the cleanup can be to make room / money for the acquisitions.

OH DEAR GOD - can you imagine how if Goog bought Yahoo, Carol Bartz would take credit for "having set the company up for such an awesome acquisition".

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