Everyone’s trying to take everyone over
So, I’m sure many people have read or at least heard about Microsoft trying to take over Yahoo!, but now even more interesting is that MS and Yahoo! are attempting to now take over AOL.
According to Ars Technica, Yahoo! it seems wants the internet portal; so, basically, we’d have a Yahoo! internet service, from what I gather - not just email, but more places for users to place ads. Microsoft, on the other hand, wants a search function. Right now AOL uses Google for its search, but of course if it mergers into either of these companies, that would be dropped for either Live Search (Microsoft) or Yahoo!’s search engine.
The major difference between these two offers seems to be that Microsoft wants to buy it outright, while Yahoo! just wants to combine (thus giving Time Warner a share in the combined company). At least, that’s what I gather about it.
I don’t think that this will really affect SEO in any kind of way unlike what a Microsoft takeover of Yahoo! would, but it is kind of interesting to watch the big guys duke it out.
