Yahoo Is Doomed, Was Google Evil?

Yesterday it was reported that Google “walked away” from the advertisement deal that it made with Yahoo back in June. As with a lot of big stories like this these days, there was also a rumor that an internal memo was sent out about Jerry Yang stepping down from Yahoo. Something that not surprisingly turned out not to be true.

On Google’s Blog, Google says that they ended the deal because of antitrust concerns. Oddly enough this is what everyone was concerned about at the beginning. So the question is did Google purposely strike this deal with Yahoo knowing that later it would back out just so Microsoft did not acquire Yahoo? Part of me thinks not because the plan backfired as Yahoo is now even cheaper and more desperate. But the other side of me looks at the history of Google and the fact that they have never been the one to fight antitrust “concerns”

To me it looks like Yahoo is on it’s way to being the next AOL, always around but no real purpose and revenue. Microsoft could swoop back in and pick them up for a deal, but Microsoft continues to show that they are not interested. Either way a sad day in tech.