Microsoft Proxy Fight
- 20th Feb 2008
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I read to today from the BBC that Microsoft are “hiring a firm that specialises in proxy battles” in order to get rid of the current board of directors at Yahoo. A good way to gain the sympathy of the shareholders vote to secure the Yahoo deal ?
No, probably not. Never the less this does push Yahoo into moving quicker. You have to admire the commitment in following the Yahoo bid and tactics like this have been used before by other Search Engines. Business is business. In any event Microsoft will eventually gather more and more kudos for advertising and online search.
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MSN will win this one way or another.
MSN are really pushing it this try, maybe there a firm believer of 3rd time lucky…
I sure hope MSN wins. It would be great if they could form anything to battle G. I just don’t see it happening though. Hope I’m wrong.
Well if Aaron’s post is anything to go by on how Yahoo!s search engine lags behind Google and MSN, then yes I do hope that MSN gains market share. It seems they might follow similar criteria for ranking according to SEO Book. If thats true then it reduce the cost of Adwords, but the MSN Adcenter interface stills leaves much to be desired.